Site Summary: Volcano World


This is an up-to-date site dealing with the world's volcanoes. It is a useful resource with a wealth of exemplar material. It covers the cause and effect of many examples. This site incorporates virtual tours of some volcanoes, with excellent graphics and video clips. Worth a look because of its wide variety of types of volcanoes and volcanic eruptions.

M.Bennett, Invicta Grammar School, December 1999

Keywords: geography, volcanoes, volcanic eruptions, lava tubes, plate tectonics, shield, viscous lava, subduction, lithospheric plates, pyroclastics, convection currents, mantle, current eruptions,
Age: KS2, KS3, KS4, A level, teachers

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