Volcanoes are one of nature’s most awe-inspiring creations, giant mountains ejecting red hot lava that are both beautiful and deadly. We recently explored why volcanoes are so astounding, but, did you ...

Researchers investigated the phenomena that led to the recent activity of seven hot spots located in the central Pacific. Numerical mechanical models showed that variations in movement of the Pacific ...

Figure 1: Distribution of IMPs on the nearside. Data used in this study include Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) NAC nadir-pointing images, LROC WAC and Clementine Ultraviolet/Visible (UVVIS ...

Submitted by Lockwood DeWitt: How does bimodal volcanism work? Bimodal volcanism is whenever you have a volcano that erupts basalt and rhyolite ... and really nothing else in-between. What does that ...

A definitive geological timeline shows that a series of massive volcanic explosions 66 million years ago spewed enormous amounts of climate-altering gases into the atmosphere immediately before and ...

Artwork of a pair of tyrannosaur dinosaurs surveying a volcanic landscape. This depicts a scene at the end of the Cretaceous period in Earths history. A massive meteorite has impacted the Earth, ...

Lost in the vastness of the South Atlantic Ocean, the South Sandwich Islands are among the most isolated places on the planet ...

For decades, scientists have vigorously debated whether an asteroid strike or massive volcanic eruptions ended the reign of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Roughly three-quarters of all life on ...

Fig. 3. Lunar volcanic landforms. (A) Floor-fractured crater (44.3°E, 46.5°N), LRO WAC mosaic. (B) Lava flows in the southwestern Imbrium (330.4°E, 25.5°N), Apollo photograph AS15-M-1701. (C) Sinuous ...

Figure 1: Spatial correlation between asthenospheric shear and continental intraplate volcanism. Figure 3: Temporal correlation between seamount density and spreading ...

Ocean deoxygenation during the Mesozoic Era was much more rapid than previous thought, with CO2 induced environmental warming creating ocean 'dead zones' over timescales of only tens of thousands of ...

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