Antarctica's melting ice sheets may trigger massive volcanic activity
When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...
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Space Volcanoes Tell the Explosive History of Mars, Venus, and Multiple Moons
Take a tour of the space volcanoes on other planets and moons across the Solar System, and find out how they differ from ...
DOGE Update: Alaska Volcano Monitor Closure Blocked Amid Eruption Threat
Representative Nick Begich said he intervened to block the lease termination for the building housing the Alaska Volcano ...
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Spews Lava 700 Feet into the Air as Observatory Staff Faces Eviction
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is shooting lava 700 feet into the air just months before the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory could be evicted ...
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Alaska's Largest Eruptions in the Past 10,000 Years
With Spurr rumbling near Anchorage, let's look at some of the largest eruptions in the most volcanically active state of the ...
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Volcano Watch: Moving magma — what happens after a dike intrudes a rift zone?
Magma moves through Hawaiian rift zones as dikes, which are tabular sheets of magma that move laterally and vertically ...
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Volcano Watch: What happens after a dike intrudes a rift zone?
When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian volcano, there is understandably a lot of excitement and apprehension. How ...
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Volcano Watch: A collapse at Maunaloa’s summit in 1868, like Kīlauea’s in 2018?
The known sequence of Maunaloa’s 1868 events began with an eruptive phase beginning at about dawn March 27 at the summit, lasting a couple of hours. Seismicity escalated thereafter, with Kaʻū ...
Radioisotopic ages of newly discovered fossil sites hold clues to evolution of mammals
Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...