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Puy de Dôme
volcano in France
Novarupta
Novarupta is a volcano located on the Alaska Peninsula on a slope of Trident Volcano in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about southwest of Anchorage. Novarupta was formed in 1912, during the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, in which it released 30 times the volume of magma of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
El Chichón
Mexican volcano
Lassen Peak
lava dome in the Cascade Range
Gyali
Gyali ( "glass", also spelled Giali or Yali, pronounced ) is a Greek volcanic island in the Dodecanese, located halfway between the south coast of Kos (Kardamaina) and Nisyros. It consists of rhyolitic obsidian lava domes and pumice deposits (which are mined in huge quantities). No historical eruptions are known, but the most recent pumice eruptions overlie soils containing pottery and obsidian artifacts from the Neolithic period (10,000–4,500 BC). The island has two distinct segments, with the northeastern part almost entirely made of obsidian and the southwestern part of pumice. These are co
Mammoth Mountain
mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California, home to a ski resort
Diky Greben
mountain in Russia
Barkhatnaya
dormant volcano on Kamchatka, Russia
Volcán Huequi
Huequi () is a volcano in the Los Lagos Region of Chile. It is in the Southern Volcanic Zone, in the centre of Ayacara Peninsula and close to the Gulf of Ancud. It is made up of a lava dome complex situated in a depression of unclear origin, a postglacial lava dome Calle and a Pleistocene volcano with Holocene parasitic cones, with a sharp summit at . There were reports of eruptions 1890–1920, and it is said to have "smoked" in 1935.
Chaos Crags
mountain in United States of America
Pūtauaki
Pūtauaki, known in English as Mount Edgecumbe, is a dacite volcanic cone in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand. A King of the Mountain race was run on Pūtauaki as part of the international King of the Mountain series between 1955 and 2020, and proceeds were donated to charity.
Mount Konocti
mountain in United States of America
Methana Volcano
volcano in eastern Peloponnese, Greece
Trocon
Trocon is a lava dome complex in Argentina. It has two summit craters and a pyroclastic cone. It is of estimated Pleistocene-Holocene age. The complex rises from an altitude of and has two summit craters. The volume of the edifice is ill-defined, ranging . Lava flows extend eastward from a pyroclastic cone.
Mount Maru
mountain in Ishikari Mountains, Hokkaido, Japan
Mount Tsurumi
mountain in Ōita Prefecture, Japan
Black Butte
mountain in California' United States of America