Science Explains Why Volcanoes Are Erupting All over the Place Right Now (Posted 2014-09-29 17:55:18)Wylie, Robin
Not all earthquakes are related to volcanoes, but in the case of Kilauea, the movement of magma puts pressure on the tectonic plates below. The pressure causes the rocks around it to crack, and magma seeps into the cracks, building even more pressure. Every time the rock cracks, it makes...
Why do volcanoes become dormant?More Time Spent Dormant than Erupting:For most of its life prior to extinction, a volcano is in a dormant stage where it does little more than stand as a mountain or large hill in the landscape. When it wakes, it erupts. Eruptions can involve spewing lava...
Get ready to enter the wet, muggy cave where you’ll find the base of the Gljúfrabúi waterfall. While it may be narrow, the entrance to the cave in the cliff’s surface should be very obvious as you approach the falls. You will have to walk through the water below in order to ge...
we have observed bursts of radio energy from the planet's surface.These bursts are similar to what we see when volcanoes erupt on Earth.So this too suggests ongoing volcanic activity.But, although this is intriguing evidence, no one's actually observed a Venus volcano erupting yet, so we can...
Erupting into space. An 86-mile-high volcanic plume explodes above the horizon of Jupiter’s moon Io. The plume is erupting over a caldera (volcanic depression), named Pillan Patera, after a South American god of thunder, fire, and volcanoes. Galileo, June 28, 1997. ...