On volcanoes, a fissure is an elongated fracture or crack at the surface from which lava erupts. Fissure eruptions typically dwindle to a central vent after a period of hours or days. Occasionally ...
The eruption began when a large fissure opened up about 30 miles ... Bárðarbunga is a stratovolcano — a type of cone-shaped volcano, also known as a composite volcano, that can suffer violent ...
So he rappelled into the heart of the volcano. Standing on the crater floor, he couldn't see the lake itself, which was above him within the cone of cooled lava. But he could hear its hissing ...
They form when magma rises into a fissure or creates a new crack by forcing its way through rock. Hundreds of dikes can invade the cone and inner core of a volcano, as they do in Nyiragongo ...
The fissure measures about 1,000 feet long, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said new fissures, ground deformation and abundant volcanic gases indicate ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A small new fissure eruption in an ice-free area of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano system prompted authorities to raise their warning of the risk of ash to aviation to the ...
Nov. 21 (UPI) --A volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula erupted for the seventh time since December in the southwest area of the island nation. The latest eruption created a fissure measuring ...
Hundreds of visitors who traveled to watch a once-in-800-year volcano eruption near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik had to evacuate the area after steam and lava started spurting from a new fissure.