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The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) [note 1] is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes . It is about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long [1] and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide, [2] and surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean . The Ring of Fire contains between 750 ...
Sunset Crater. / 35.36444°N 111.50361°W / 35.36444; -111.50361. Sunset Crater is a cinder cone located north of Flagstaff in the U.S. state of Arizona. The crater is within the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument . Sunset Crater is the youngest in a string of volcanoes (the San Francisco volcanic field) that is related to the ...
Mount Elden or Elden Mountain (Hopi: Hovi'itstuyqa) is located in central Coconino County northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. It takes its name from one of the region's earliest Anglo settlers, John Elden , who, along with his family, established a homestead on the mountain's lower slopes and grazed sheep on the open grasslands below during the ...
Sunset Crater. Black Bottom Crater. Campbell Crater. Colton Crater. Double Crater is an extinct Pleistocene volcano within the San Francisco volcanic field, north of Flagstaff. [1] Francis Crater. Haywire Crater. Junction Crater.
Kanlaon, also known as Mount Kanlaon and Kanlaon Volcano (Hiligaynon: Bolkang Kanglaon; Cebuano: Bolkang Kanglaon; Filipino: Bulkang Kanlaon), is an active andesitic stratovolcano and the highest mountain on the island of Negros in the Philippines, as well as the highest peak in the Visayas, with an elevation of 2,465 m (8,087 ft) above sea level.
Nevado del Ruiz ( Spanish pronunciation: [neβaðo ðel ˈrwis] ), also known as La Mesa de Herveo [4] (English: Mesa of Herveo, the name of the nearby town) is a volcano on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima in Colombia, being the highest point of both. It is located about 130 km (81 mi) west of the capital city Bogotá.
Shiveluch (Russian: Шивелуч, IPA: [ʂɨˈvʲeɫʊt͡ɕ] ), also called Sheveluch, which originates from the name "suelich" which means "smoking mountain" in Itelmen [5] is the northernmost active volcano in Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It and Karymsky are Kamchatka's largest, most active and most continuously erupting volcanoes, as well as ...
Geography of Middle-earth. The geography of Middle-earth encompasses the physical, political, and moral geography of J. R. R. Tolkien 's fictional world of Middle-earth, strictly a continent on the planet of Arda but widely taken to mean the physical world, and Eä, all of creation, as well as all of his writings about it. [1]