Top 33 volcanoes on Earth


	Top 33 volcanoes on Earth

hitchhiker08

4-21-2008 1:04 AM

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volcanoes, geology, tectonic movements, phenomena, vesuvius, mount saint helens, lava, eruption

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			<DIV><A title="Picture of Vesuvius blast in 73AD" href="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Top-33-Volcanoes-2.jpg" target="_blank"><IMG border="0" alt="Picture of Vesuvius blast in 73AD" src="http://news.softpedia.com/images//newsrsz/Top-33-Volcanoes-2.jpg" /></A><BR /><SPAN class="rightcellcontent"><A href="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Top-33-Volcanoes-2.jpg" target="_blank" class="small">Enlarge picture</A></SPAN></DIV>Volcanoes are the result of the tectonic movements of the Earth's crust, when magma from the entrails of the planet goes out as lava. They became present in the legends and mythology of all people living around them, which venerated and feared them at the same time. </DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Top-33-Volcanoes-2.jpg" href="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Top-33-Volcanoes-2.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">news.softpedia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Top-33-Volcanoes-2.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.softpedia.com/img/7CFE9207-6425-44AD-8E04-80C87E735223" alt="Picture of Vesuvius blast in 73AD" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Top-33-Volcanoes-3.jpg" href="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Top-33-Volcanoes-3.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">news.softpedia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Top-33-Volcanoes-3.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.softpedia.com/img/CA31B374-3785-4E2D-9DC9-8EC26F2B0AC7" alt="The peak of Cotopaxi" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Top-33-Volcanoes-83849.shtml" href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Top-33-Volcanoes-83849.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">news.softpedia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Top-33-Volcanoes-83849.shtml"><DIV>
Amongst the hundreds of active or non-active volcanoes, here is a list that we should all know, about the most significant volcanoes on Earth. They are not aligned by size or importance. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Top-33-Volcanoes-83849.shtml"><DIV>
1.The most important volcano in North America is Mount Saint Helens, located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the US, at 96 miles (154 km) south of the city of Seattle and 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon. This active volcano is located in the Cascade Range and is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. St Helens is the fourth volcanic peak in the Cascade Range. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CF65A97D-EFE1-499D-9B04-4D0F5D5C2071/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>