14 DAY TRIAL // 12 new active volcanoes have been discovered by scientists working with the USGS (US Geological Survey) and the US Forest Service. The new volcanoes are all located in the southeastern regions of the state of Alaska.
The researchers who found them explain that they have managed to remain hidden for so long because, unlike the stratovolcanoes in southernwestern Alaska, these volcanoes look more like piles than like mountains.
Because of this, they had been concealed by local forests and coastal waters for several hundred years.
Daily Mail says that these 12 volcanoes were discovered over a period of three years, and that specialists suspect that several others will be pinned down after carrying out further investigations in the area.
“We're convinced now there's probably a whole bunch of green knobs out there covered with timber that may be vents that may have never been mapped,” geologist James Baichtalwith argued.
By analyzing the make-up of the lava flows in these volcanoes, the researchers realized that they are related not to the Aleutian string of volcanoes in west Alaska, but to a volcanic field in Canada.