Tag: Azores volcanoes

Every island is dramatic, some with huge volcanic lakes and others with vast dry calderas, places where deep caves and bubbling mud make life unique. It’s easy to see that volcanic activity created the beautiful Azores islands, but how does it all work and what’s been going on for the past several millions of years? […]

Sheer, unadulterated drama… that’s the Azores, a group of ancient volcanic islands whose violent geological past has left immense scars on the landscape. It’s all about the archipelago’s location, set right in the middle of the Atlantic, half way between the USA and Portugal, astride the triple junction of the Eurasian, American and African tectonic […]