Mount Etna volcano roars into action with ash and lava
Mount Etna in Sicily has roared back into spectacular volcanic action, sending up plumes of ash and spewing lava.
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Continental interiors may not be as tectonically stable as geologists think
A University of Illinois-led team has identified unexpected geophysical signals underneath tectonically stable interiors of South America and Africa. The data suggest that geologic activity within stable portions of Earth's ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2018
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The chemistry that could feed life within Saturn's moon Enceladus
Saturn's 502km-diameter icy moon Enceladus has fascinated scientists since it was first seen up close by NASA's Voyager probes in the 1980s. The moon is venting plumes of ice particles into space including traces of methane, ...
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2015
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The mysterious bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor chain
The volcanic islands of Hawaii represent the youngest end of a 80 million years old and roughly 6,000 kilometres long mountain chain on the ground of the Pacific Ocean. The so-called Hawaiian-Emperor chain consisting of dozens ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 8, 2017
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Over 500 gas plumes found to be bubbling up in the ocean along the eastern US coast
(Phys.org) —A small team of researchers in the U.S. has discovered the presence of 570 bubble plumes along the Atlantic coast of the U.S. between North Carolina and Massachusetts—the plumes are believed to be methane ...
An ocean inside the Earth? Water is determined to be hundreds of kilometers down
The transition zone between the Earth's upper and lower mantle contains considerable quantities of water, according to an international study involving the Institute for Geosciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt. The ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2022
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Methane discovery sheds new light on world's largest mass extinction event
Methane emissions created by volcanic activity burning buried fossil fuel deposits could have played a major role in the global warming that triggered the largest mass extinction event in Earth's history, a new study suggests.
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2022
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New force driving Earth's tectonic plates discovered
Bringing fresh insight into long-standing debates about how powerful geological forces shape the planet, from earthquake ruptures to mountain formations, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2011
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Climate change will transform cooling effects of volcanic eruptions, study suggests
Researchers have shown that human-caused climate change will have important consequences for how volcanic gases interact with the atmosphere.
Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2021
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OMG, the water's warm! NASA study solves glacier puzzle
A new NASA study explains why the Tracy and Heilprin glaciers, which flow side by side into Inglefield Gulf in northwest Greenland, are melting at radically different rates.
Earth Sciences
Jun 22, 2018
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