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volcano

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When the molten rock of the earth’s core forced its way to the surface to form the throat of a volcano, as the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinkingand cracking into long columns.

The outer layers of the volcano were worn away until the hard core stood completely exposed.

When the molten rock of the earth's core forced its way to the surface to form the throat of a volcano, as the centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinking and cracking into long columns.

Altogether there are some ten thousand of these volcanoes on earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.

But Christiansen couldn't find the Yellowstone volcano anywhere.

In the 1960s,while studying the volcanic history of Yellowstone national park,bob christiansen became puzzled about something that,oddly,had not troubled anyone before：he couldn't find the park's volcano.

Most of us, when we talk about volcanoes, think of the classic cone shapes of a Fuji or Kilimanjaro, which are created when erupting magma piles up.

The exact location of the volcano.

There is, however, a second less known type of volcano that doesn't involve mountain building.

These are volcanoes so explosive that they burst open in a single big crack, leaving behind a vast hole, the caldera.

At issue is the TMT’s planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko , that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.

At issue is the TMT's planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.