Notable Volcanoes Posters “M...-”
for science & social studies classrooms, home schoolers, offices.

Maat Mons, a massive shield volcano and the highest volcano on the planet Venus, is named after the Egyptian goddess of truth. The images of Maat Mons are from the radar mapping by the United States' Magellan probe (launched on May 4, 1989).

Maderas, the smaller of the two volcanoes which make up the island of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua, has a cloud forest on the Pacific side.

Mammoth Mountain, formed by a series of eruptions that ended 57,000 years ago, still produces hazardous volcanic gases that kill trees and caused ski patroller fatalities in 2006.

Masaya and Nindiri are active volcanoes with a total of five craters in Nicaragua.

Since 1524 the volcano has erupted at least nineteen times and an eruption in 4550 BC was one of the largest on Earth in the last 10,000 years.

Mauna Loa, the largest volcano on Earth in terms of volume and area covered, is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii.

During WWII Mauna Loa's 1942 eruption was kept secret. American's feared that if the eruption was publicized, Japanese military could use the bright glow to guide warplanes at night.

Mayon, a stratovolcano on the island of Luzon, is the most active of the active volcanoes in the Philippines, having erupted over 49 times in the past 400 years.

Medicine Lake Volcano created the landforms of lava tube caves, fumaroles, cinder and spatter cones, pit craters, hornitos, maars, lava flows, and volcanic fields, now protected in the Lava Beds National Monument.

Located near Mt. Shasta in northeastern California the area includes Petroglyph Point, one of the largest panels of Native American rock art in the United States and is where the Modoc Indians, lead by Kintpuash, took refuge during the 1872-73 Modoc War.

Mount Merapi, whose name means Mountain of Fire, is listed as a Decade Volcano - a volcano with history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to populated areas.

The southern Peruvian stratovolcano El Misti, aka Guagua-Putina, is the site of rare Inca artifacts.