A recent study has revealed that dormant volcanoes in the Cascade Range still contain significant amounts of magma beneath ...

With eruptions in 1998, 2011, and 2015, the volcano serves as a perfect laboratory, and experts expect an eruption by the end ...

It appears that these magma bodies exist beneath volcanoes over their whole lifetime, not just during an active state.' ...

A seismic survey challenges the long-standing belief that only active volcanoes have large magma bodies sitting beneath them.

For decades, scientists believed that magma chambers beneath volcanoes were transient, forming before an eruption and then ...

Cornell University scientists studying six North American volcanoes within the Cascade Range found something totally ...

What differentiates an active volcano from a dormant one?While visible lava at the surface is an obvious indicator of activity, the long-standing ...

While Hawaii is formed by volcanoes, including the highly active Mt. Kilauea, I want to explore an easier-to-reach region: ...

Experts believe a Mount Rainier eruption would post a grave threat to millions who live in the southern and eastern sections ...

Unlike the Pacific Northwest’s steep-sloped Cascade volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens or Mount Hood that tend to explode when they erupt, Axial Seamount’s magma forces its way out as fluid ...

More information: Guanning Pang et al, Long-lived partial melt beneath Cascade Range volcanoes, Nature Geoscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01630-y Journal information: Nature Geoscience ...

As a result, the transition zone between the western Cascades and the high Cascades around Santiam Pass is a natural laboratory for understanding how volcanoes have shaped Oregon's landscape.