TheCelebrityCafe.com-Emma Tremblay-June 3,2013
Given their tendency to erupt, spewing out tons of molten lava and ash, it seems all the volcanoes in the world should have been discovered, cataloged, and researched by now. But in the past three years, U.S. Geological Survey geologists have discovered twelve new volcanoes in the southeastern region of Alaska, similar to the one pictured below.
The intrigue began in 2009, reports Live Science, when scientists discovered a volcano which erupted around the same time as Mt. Edgecumbe (the panhandle’s biggest volcano) that had a completely different chemical signature from its neighbor. With increased expeditions to the volcano came even more volcanic discoveries, all with a chemical pattern that turned out to be identical to that of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, a field of volcanoes in Canada already known to be 1,250 miles long and 375 miles wide. Those dimensions may now have to be revised.
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