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Video from the U.S. Geological Survey shows lava shooting over 1,000 feet into the air during Kīlauea’s eruption on Hawaii's ...
The recent spectacular eruptions of the Hawaii volcano are awe inspiring and show the awesome power of the Earth. It’s hard ...
One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Kīlauea, erupted in dramatic fashion on May 25, launching fiery jets of molten lava ...
could herald the start of decades of occasional eruptions.” A lava flow smolders, glowing red through black volcanic rock. While the Icelandic government has warned that this latest eruption ...
This paper presents geochemical behaviour of trace elements of the felsic alkaline rocks of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with special attention of fractional crystallization and continental ...
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Drew White, graduate student ...
The Xiangshan orefield, located in Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, is a typical representative of volcanic-type uranium deposit in China and has been investigated for about 60 years (Guo et al., 2020; Li ...
The lava flows, which stretched up to 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) long, were clearly visible from space and ended up covering a total area of around over 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares), including Todoque, ...
"When Axial Seamount erupts, it'll look a lot like a Hawaiian lava flow eruption. It's not an explosive eruption, but calm effusions of lava flowing out of the caldera and across the seafloor." ...
In 2015, Axial Seamount had a massive eruption that leaked out a surreal amount of magma, with one lava flow measuring 450 feet thick, the report stated. “For reference, that’s about two ...
While the eruption was ongoing, large-scale field experiments were conducted to build defensive earthen barriers aimed at slowing down the molten lava flow. Building defensive barriers to slow ...
These lava fountains fed lava flows, some more extensive than others, that collectively continued to fill the crater formed during the 2018 summit collapse. In some places near the vents ...