Iceland is no stranger to volcanic activity ... magmas like this produce what is known as a "stratovolcano" —a cone shaped mountain with steep sides. Runny basaltic magmas tend to produce ...

Iceland straddles the boundary between two ... in this area [Reykjanes] are not originating from the typical cone-shaped mountain but more through openings in the crust,” says Sara Barsotti ...

In October of 1792, the crew of the H.M.S. Discovery was surveying the west coast when they spotted a cone-shaped mountain. The ship's captain named it after the British diplomat Alleyne ...

After more than three weeks of fiery, crowd-pleasing fountains, a volcano in southern Iceland has finally quieted down—leaving behind a new, 270-foot (82-meter) cone as a permanent souvenir ...

opened up at a fissure only a few hundred feet away from the cone crafted by last year’s volcanic outburst. Less than a year has passed since lava stopped sputtering from Iceland’s Reykjanes ...

Magma flows from a heart-shaped crater as lava ... spew from an erupting volcano in Iceland, nearly two weeks after it first exploded. The Fagradalsfjall mountain, 20 miles south-west of the ...