Famous Volcanoes: List Of Volcanic Eruptions With Pictures & Facts
A list of the world’s most famous volcanoes and volcanic eruptions, with locations, pictures and facts.
- You can find out more about volcanoes and why they erupt on this page: Volcano Facts
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Famous Volcanoes: Introduction
Volcanoes are mountains formed by magma (molten rock) emerging from cracks in the Earth’s thin outer crust.
Most volcanoes appear along the sides of the huge plates (known as tectonic plates) that make up the surface of the world – either where the plates are moving …