The entire area is the Air and Tenere Natural Reserve in Niger. The overlay image shows some solid circles cover up several Precambrian volcano craters. The weird thing is a huge " ring gap" cuts through the Air Mountains , just like a vestige of a cup presses into sand upside down.
Geologists say that the 63km-length diameter ring is called " ring dike",al...
Beyond the famous K2 check out the sisters K1, K3, K4 and K5 - Thomas Montgomerie was the member of the team who designated it "K2" for being the second peak of the Karakoram range. The other peaks were originally named K1, K3, K4 and K5, but were eventually renamed Masherbrum, Broad Peak, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I respectively. The K2 mountain, the worlds second highest mountain, is commo...
Mount Everest. Worlds tallest peak, highest mountain. Also called Sagarmatha (Nepal, meaning "Head of the Sky"), Chomolungma (Tibet, meaning "Goddess Mother of the World"), Qomolangma (China), Zhumulangma (Pinyin) and originally named peak XV, peak 15 when it was discovered and classified. Mount Everest is a part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, located on the border between Sagarmatha zone ...
Near Illimani Mountain, this interesting place have an ancient legend. The story tells that Mountains Illimani and Mururata fought until Mururata lose their peaks, thats why doesn't have any peak. Both Mountains have a mythic power (La Paz, Bolivia).
The astonishing, mythic and magic mountain of Illimani, is a favorite place to scale and conquer it. This marvelous is located in the Andean high planes (La Paz, Bolivia.
On March 29, 2007, the Shiveluch Volcano on the Russian Federation’s Kamchatka Peninsula erupted. According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory the volcano underwent an explosive eruption between 01:50 and 2:30 UTC, sending an ash cloud skyward roughly 9,750 meters (32,000 feet), based on visual estimates. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard NASA’s Aqua satell...
The Fichtelberg is the highest mountain in Saxony, in Germany. His height is 1214 m. He is situated in the mountain range Erzgebirge. This mountain range has a german part and a czech part.
This is the highest point of the Grosser Inselsberg.
The mountain Grosser Inselsberg is the fourth highest in the mountain range Thueringer Wald in Germany.
Take a Tour of The Hudson River Just North of Cold Spring ~ See it as Only Google Earth can Show it ~ Double Click ~ The Hudson River Tour ~ Then Hit The Play Button to Take a Tour that Only Google Earth Can Give ~ Make Sure that the Terrain Layer is Engaged ~ If Necessary Set your Tour Speed to 4 or 5 Seconds ~ Enjoy
Take a Tour of The Caldera at The Mauna Loa Volcano ~ See it as Only Google Earth can Show it ~
Double Click Mauna Loa Caldera ~ Then Hit The Play Button to Take a Tour that Only Google Earth Can Give ~ Make sure that the Terrain Layer is Engaged ~ Enjoy
The Banks Peninsula has a radically different landscape compared to the adjoining, flat Canterbury Plains, where Christchurch (gray patch to the north) is located. The Banks Peninsula is formed from the overlapping cones of the extinct Lyttelton and Akaroa volcanoes. Subsequent erosion of the cones formed the heavily dissected terrain visible in the image, and sea level rise led to the creation...
QUITO, Ecuador -- A volcanic eruption in Ecuador's Andes mountains killed at least one person and left more than 60 others missing, the mayor of a village on the volcano's slope said Thursday.
One man's body was recovered after the overnight eruption of lava from Tungurahua, in the country's high Andes, Penipe Mayor Juan Salazar said.
Stevens Pass Ski Area. Fifty miles east of Seattle, WA.
USGS aerial photo (1 meter resolution) overlay with chairlift positions.
Updated to include webcams and snow report.
Herbert Island, one of the Islands of Four Mountains group, sits to the west of the island of Chuginadak, from which it is separated by the Chuginadak Pass. (Chuginadak is visible at lower right, with Carlisle Island at upper right). Measuring measuring 10 km across, Herbert Island rises to a heigh of 1,280 m. The summit is topped by a 2 km wide caldera.
Mount Sakurajima, in southern Japan, has erupted at 08:30 GMT, (5:30 pm local time), on Wednesday, 7th June 2006. According to the Japanese Weather Agency, ash was blown 1,000 metres into the air. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The 1,117-metre high volcano is one of Japan's most active volcanoes situated in Kagoshima Bay, near the main island of Kyushuf . In 1914,...
Mount Ngauruhoe is a 2,291 metres high cone shaped volcano on the edge of the Tongariro massif. The volcano is new Zealand's most active volcano with 61 eruptions since 1839.
The volcano is the `Mt Doom` in the movie Lord of the Rings.
It is the youngest vent and highest peak in the Tongariro volcanic complex on the Central Plateau of the North Island, and first erupted about 2,50...
Heart Mountain near the Montana-Wyoming border once moved 100 kilometres in a half-hour in a catastrophic scenario during the early Eocene .
The Mountain originally formed with the Absaroka Range, to the West, about 50 million years ago.
However, lava from deep underground slid the mountain to its present position.
The Heart Mountain block slide of northwestern Wyoming a...
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