tommy on February 11th, 2008

The western United States is home to 20 potentially active volcanoes.  Just over half of these have shown activity in the past 2000 years. 
The volcanoes of the western United States, especially those in the Cascades, are the result of subduction of oceanic plates beneath the edge of the North American Plate.  The oceanic plates are made at [...]

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