University of California, Berkeley, seismologists have produced for the first time a sharp, three-dimensional scan of Earth's interior that conclusively connects plumes of hot rock rising through the mantle with surface hotspots ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 2, 2015
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When the western part of the super-continent Gondwana broke up around 130 Million years ago, today's Africa and South-America started to separate and the South Atlantic was born. It is commonly assumed that enormous masses ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 13, 2015
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The largest magmatic events on Earth are caused by massive melting of ascending large volumes of hot material from the Earth's interior.
Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2015
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An international team, including researchers at the University of Liverpool, have shown that south east Iceland is underlain by continental crust.
Earth Sciences
Apr 13, 2015
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The most recent eruption on the Canary Islands – at El Hierro in 2011 – produced spectacularly enigmatic white "floating rocks" that originated from the layers of oceanic sedimentary rock underneath the island. An international ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2015
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Spectacular eruptions at Bárðarbunga volcano in central Iceland have been spewing lava continuously since Aug. 31. Massive amounts of erupting lava are connected to the destruction of supercontinents and dramatic changes ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2014
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A UC Santa Barbara geochemist studying Samoan volcanoes has found evidence of the planet's early formation still trapped inside the Earth. Known as hotspots, volcanic island chains such as Samoa can ancient primordial signatures ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2014
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In the typical textbook picture, volcanoes, such as those that are forming the Hawaiian islands, erupt when magma gushes out as narrow jets from deep inside Earth. But that picture is wrong, according to a new study from ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2014
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Using a simulation with an unprecedentedly high resolution, Earth scientists from University of Paris VI and ETH Zurich have shown that magma columns in the Earth's interior can cause continental breakup—but only if the ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2014
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Volcanos in south-eastern Australia are still considered active, and a PhD candidate is hoping to determine whether we might expect more eruptions any time soon.
Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2014
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