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

University of Oregon earth scientist Leif Karlstrom described it as ... Gordon Grant: The High Cascades are basically a layer cake of lava flows, stacked one on top of the other, that go down half a ...

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 across, one of the world’s most active volcanoes rests. It’s waiting, ...

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 ...

After closely monitoring the volcano's activity, Oregon State University Research ... crust that insulates the inner portion of the lava flow. The OSU research team has employed a suite of tools ...