News tagged with volcanologists
Scientists discover nanodiamonds in Greenland ice
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maine volcanologist Andrei Kurbatov and glaciologist Paul Mayewski, along with 21 other scientists, coauthored a scientific paper released late last month that details the discovery of a layer ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Latest eruption at Hawaii's Kilauea takes breather
Kilauea volcano's latest eruption has decreased in activity and taken a breather from furiously spewing out lava for five days.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Volcanic destruction? Not always
For many, the story of Pompeii defines what happens when a volcano erupts: It destroys everything in its path and kills everyone who cannot escape.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 02, 2011 |
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Scientists move closer to predicting volcano hazard
UK and Russian scientists say they are a step closer to predicting how dangerous a volcano is after developing a method that lets them figure out how individual volcanoes are 'plumbed'.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2011 |
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Off the shelf maps help mitigate volcanic hazards
(PhysOrg.com) -- When volcanoes erupt, pinpointing the regions at high risk for lethal hazards and deciding whether or not to evacuate a resistant population comprise the most difficult problems faced by hazards ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Lava spews 100 feet from Hawaii volcano's new vent
(AP) -- Glowing, red-orange lava is shooting into the sky, creating fiery rivers from the newest vent at Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Tenerife island landscape reveals explosive past
Volcanologists from the University of Leicester have uncovered one of the world's best-preserved accessible examples of a monstrous landslide that followed a huge volcanic eruption on the Canarian island of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2011 |
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Autopsy of a eruption: Linking crystal growth to volcano seismicity
A forensic approach that links changes deep below a volcano to signals at the surface is described by scientists from the University of Bristol in a paper published today in Science. The research could ultima ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 24, 2012 |
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