Research carried out by scientists at Keele University, the University of Manchester and University College Dublin has shed new light on how precious metals are concentrated in igneous rocks.
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2020
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The turquoise waters became darker and darker, and squiggly glow-in-dark marine creatures began to glide past in the inky depths like ghosts.
Environment
Sep 16, 2016
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A volcano erupted just 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Iceland's capital Reykjavik on Friday, turning the sky crimson as streams of red lava spewed from the ground.
Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2021
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A team of researchers understands more about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They discovered a flow of hot rocks, known as a mantle plume, rising from the core-mantle boundary beneath central Greenland that melts ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2020
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Planetary scientists would be thrilled if they could peel the Earth like an orange and look at what lies beneath the thin crust. We live on the planet's cold surface, but the Earth is a solid body and the surface is continually ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 8, 2015
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Guatemala's Pacaya volcano has been erupting since February, keeping local communities and authorities on high alert.
Environment
May 12, 2021
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A particularly spectacular blast from Italy's Mount Etna volcano belched out a towering cloud of ash and lava stone Sunday onto Sicilian villages, the latest in a series of explosions since mid-February.
Earth Sciences
Mar 7, 2021
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An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the networks Neolithic people formed in the region as they developed agriculture are larger ...
Archaeology
Oct 17, 2022
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from Wellington University in New Zealand has found that volcanoes that erupt beneath bodies of water can cause widespread dispersal of diatoms found in their beds. In their paper published ...
(Phys.org)—A large team of researchers from across the U.S. studying data sent back from Mars by the Curiosity rover has found evidence of tridymite, a type of mineral associated with explosive volcanoes here on Earth. ...
