News tagged with volcanic zones

What goes down, must come up: Geoscientists offer new model for degassing of Earth's mantle

A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Tongan inspection team heads to undersea volcano

(AP) -- Scientists sailed Thursday to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga - shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet (meters) into the sky above the South Pacific ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Why did the Southern Gulf of California rupture so rapidly?

The November GSA Today science article, "Why did the Southern Gulf of California rupture so rapidly? -- Oblique divergence across hot, weak lithosphere along a tectonically active margin," is now online.

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created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone

An international group of scientists aboard the Deep-Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0