Cathodoluminescence image of Zircon crystals from Nevado de Toluca volcano in Mexico. Credit: UNIGE/WEBER A new method shows that it’s now possible to estimate the…
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Nanolite ‘snow’ surrounding an iron oxide microlite ‘Christmas tree’. Even these small 50 nm spheres are actually made up of even smaller nanolites aggregated into…
Archaeologic excavations at Hall’s Cave exposed sediments for geochemical analysis that span from circa 20,000 to 6,000 years. Credit: Michael Waters, Texas A&M University Researchers…
A living foraminifera, a type of marine plankton, that researchers grew in laboratory culture. To reconstruct past climate, fossilized specimens are collected from deep sea…
Bezymianny is an active stratovolcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Russia. Credit: GFZ For the first time, long-term photogrammetic series document the “life cycle”…
The 2015 eruption at Wolf volcano in the Galapagos Archipelago. Credit: Gabriel Salazar, La Pinta Yacht Expedition An international team of volcanologists working on remote…
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. Credit: NASA ETH researchers used computer simulations to classify the current activity of corona structures on the…
New 3D model provides evidence that Venus is churning inside. A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some…
July 6, 2020 A young volcanic island has been growing in the western Pacific Ocean since 2013. Since mid-June 2020, it has been going through…
Modeling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in. The asteroid, which…
Click image for full view. In 2008, atmospheric scientist Santiago Gassó authored a study that highlighted abnormally bright trails of clouds around remote peaks in…
Fountain Paint Pot. Credit: National Park Service. Throughout Earth’s long history, volcanic super-eruptions have been some of the most extreme events ever to affect our…
These giant mounds of fossil stromatolites from about 2.5 billion years ago are located in South Africa. For scale, notice a person’s dangling legs at…
Picture of the Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala. Credit: Zorn et al. 2020, Nature – Scientific Reports: DOI 10.1038/s41586-020-2212-1 Researchers create novel 3D models with…
The eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano in 2018 was one of the most destructive in this volcano’s recorded history. Why this happened has remained a…
Lava streaming from an active vent during the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey Scientists suggest rainfall patterns contribute to timing of…
Research led by the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has anchored a long sequence of tree rings, providing context for the civilizations that…
Stone tools found at the Dhaba site corresponding with the Toba volcanic super-eruption levels. Pictured here are diagnostic Middle Palaeolithic core types. Credit: Chris Clarkson…
Stock photo of Tungurahua, an active stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador. South American volcano showing early warning signs of ‘potential collapse,’ research…
This almost cloud-free image of Taal volcano was captured on January 23, 2020, at 02:20 GMT (10:20 local time) by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, and…