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Photo Gallery: Volcanoes
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Photo: Time exposure of flowing lava
Photo: Lkamoamoa village and campground, near Mt. Kilauea, HawaiiPhoto: Lights beneath an erupting Piano del Lago, CataniaPhoto: Lightning flashes and lava streaks Photo: Time exposure of flowing lavaPhoto: Boiling brown mudPhoto: Climbers walk on lava at steaming Ertale volcano craterPhoto: A fern growing from cooled lavaPhoto: Carbon gas escapes from crust of volcanic vent, New ZealandPhoto: Glowing red lava flows into the oceanPhoto: An aerial view of a caldera Photo: Red, glowing lava flows Photo: A cloud of ash above a volcanoPhoto: Vegetation and villages on a cone-shaped volcano
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A stream of neon-orange lava cascades down Ol Doinyo Lengai, in Tanzania’s Great Rift Valley. Ol Doinyo Lengai, "Mountain of God" in the language of the Maasai, is the only volcano in the world erupting natrocarbonatite lava, an extremely fluid lava that contains almost no silicon.
Photograph by Carsten Peter

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