5/19/2015 - Recent studies of other stars have revealed that our sun is capable of blasting the Earth with a solar flare that is far more powerful than anything that has been seen since humans started tracking "solar weather" in the 1970s, warned Kyoto University astrophysicist Kazunari Shib...
Throughout its lifetime, Newberry has been the most explosive volcano in the Cascades, with at least 5 caldera-forming eruptions in less than 300,000 years. The most recent caldera developed about 65,000 years ago, when explosive eruption of basaltic andesite to rhyolite created the current 6...
Not, indeed, like the Nile, overflowing its parched banks, invigorating the alluvial soil and causing vegetation to teem forth in its richest attire; but like the sulphurious flame that burns unnoticed in the bowels of a volcano; kept alive by the combustion of its own native element, until...
Found: Possible Trigger For Volcano Super-Eruptions
Actually, three more resources of dead carbon make a negative contribution to the ratio. One of them is the dead carbon that comes up from deep Earth through volcanic eruptions. Radiocarbon dating of an organism that lived in the vicinity of a volcano gives inaccurate results. ...
Moon. This is not science fiction, it's ancient volcanism. The Moon used to have lava fields and eruptions, but astronomers had never actually found a more traditional Earth-like volcano - until they looked at what was beneath the Compton and Belkovich craters on the far side of the Moon...
VDAP's quick response to the catastrophic eruptions of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991 ranks as its most notable success. A quick examination of the geologic record at Mount Pinatubo indicated the volcano's recent history of producing large, explosive eruptions. The assessment helped iden...
Enormous Volcano on Mars Found Hidden Within Sprawling Labyrinth In a scarred and scored terrain on the face of Mars, a giant secret lurks. There, beneath the region known as Noctis Labyrinthus (Labyrinth of the Night), scientists have found evidence of an enormous, ancient volcano - and, pos...