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Welcome to WikiProject Volcanoes on the English Wikipedia! We are a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to volcanoes, volcanologists, and volcanics . See the Assessment section for an estimate of the current number of Wikipedia articles within the project's scope. Main page.
This page has a detailed summary of the history and progress of WikiProject Volcanoes. Hopefully, this archive of information will be useful to both this WikiProject and to others. It seems prudent to write it down before it is otherwise inevitably forgotten, or buried deep within edit histories.
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Volcanoes, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of volcanoes, volcanology, igneous petrology, and related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
This page contains a list of image resources which may be useful to WikiProject Volcanoes, for enhancing articles within its scope. Many excellent images can be found on Wikimedia Commons, especially in the categories listed at right. Note that many images which are available on Commons are not properly categorized yet, so it is helpful to also ...
Contents. hide. (Top) General Volcanology and Volcanoes. Plate tectonics. History of Volcanology and Volcanic Eruptions. Volcanologists. Igneous Petrology. Volcanoes of the Solar System. Worldwide. Continental United States and Canada. Yellowstone. Hawaii. Mexico and Central America. Caribbean. South America. Europe. Russia. Asia. Africa.
