Portal:Volcanoes/Did you know
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- ...that the Tseax Cone in British Columbia was the source for one of Canada's worst known geophysical disasters?
- ...that the Ol Doinyo Lengai stratovolcano (pictured) in Africa's Great Rift Valley is considered the world's strangest volcano because of being the only active volcano in the world with natrocarbonatite lava?
- ...that at 22,615 feet, Ojos del Salado is the highest volcano in the world?
- ...that the 1912 Novarupta eruption of Mount Katmai was the largest of the 20th century?
- ...that a tuya is a type of flat-topped, steep-sided volcano formed when lava erupts through a thick glacier or ice sheet?