A research team of the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently studied two lunar meteorites, revealing for the first time a magma recharge event on the moon about ...
The aptly named Cave of Crystals, in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried around 300 metres underground and contains giant gypsum crystals up to 11 metres long. Some are big enough to walk on and are so ...
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Yellowstone's massive crack: A volcanic warning?
A huge fissure has emerged in Yellowstone, raising alarms among scientists about the supervolcano's activity. This unexpected ...
The Echinus Geyser is a hot spring located in Norris Geyser Basin at Yellowstone National Park, measuring around 660 feet (200 metres) across. During the 1970s it would erupt for up to 90 minutes at a ...
A group of specialists briefly stopped by Sitka to attend to much-needed maintenance of tectonic shift-tracking equipment.
“Volcano Watch” articles over the past two weeks have described past episodic lava fountaining eruptions at Kilauea Iki (1959) and Maunaulu (1969). Next week, we will continue this series with a ...
ABSTRACT: Los Humeros is a Pleistocene caldera in the eastern portion of the Trans Mexican Volcanic Belt, exploited for geothermal resources for over five decades, presently providing over 90 MWe. We ...
ABSTRACT: Los Humeros is a Pleistocene caldera in the eastern portion of the Trans Mexican Volcanic Belt, exploited for geothermal resources for over five decades, presently providing over 90 MWe. We ...
Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies a massive magma chamber capable of ejecting thousands of cubic kilometers of ash. A full eruption could bury multiple US states, collapse infrastructure, and ...
Everyone switched off their headlamps and there we stood together in total darkness, inside the San Gabriel Mountains. Yes, inside. I had joined a local caving group in an attempt to understand more ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...
About 290 miles off the coast of Cannon Beach, Oregon, lies an underwater volcano called Axial Volcano. Axial erupts about once every ten years. Twice in the past year, news outlets have reported that ...
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