A video shared by Oregon State University Professor Bill Chadwick shows new lava flows from the 2015 eruption of the Axial ...

Poised some 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, one mile beneath the sea, yet rising 3,600 feet high, and spanning 1.2 miles ...

Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon ...

Lava flow from the 2011 Axial Seamount eruption. The volcano is one of the most active in the Pacific Northwest, according to Oregon State University Researcher Bill Chadwick (Courtesy Bill Chadwick.) ...

The enormous 3,600ft-tall volcano - named the Axial Seamount - sits around 5,000ft below the surface of the Pacific Ocean and ...

Oregon is home to some of the best examples ... formed by flowing lava moving underneath the hardened surface of a lava flow. Tubes act as a pressure relief valve of sorts, a natural drainage ...

The colossal Axial Seamount, one of the most active and best-monitored underwater volcanoes in the world, could erupt in a ...

The last eruption in the region — a lava flow — was over 70,000 years ago. In a recent study, USGS investigators with collaborators at Oregon State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Oregon’s Cascade Range mountains were built ... flatter landscape with lakes and volcanic topography, including lava flows. Scientists can study the transition zone between these two contrasting ...

Oregon's Cascade Range mountains might not ... rather than eruptions with slower-moving lava flows. "It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big ...

It’s perfectly safe,” Chadwick emphasized. Instead of dramatic explosions, eruptions at Axial Seamount produce lava flows that reshape the seafloor without impacting the surface ocean.