Deep-seated mantle structures known as LLSVPs have been found to be over a billion years old, affecting tectonic activity.

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The word igneous comes from the Latin phrase "formed from fire". Therefore, igneous rocks are made from solidified magma and lava from the earth’s volcanic activities. Here are fascinating facts about ...

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"High levels of volcanic gas and strands of volcanic glass are among the hazards," the NPS warned. "Eruptive activity can change at any time." Strands of volcanic glass, known as Pele’s hair, are ...

MANILA, Philippines — Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island recorded 14 ash emission events recorded in the past 24 hours, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported ...

From around 2pm, larger chunks of pumice - a porous volcanic rock - began to rain down. This is when Pompeii and its people started to be crushed, as slabs up to nine feet thick crashed onto the ...

The surface of Mars is frigid and desiccated today, but billions of years ago it was a different story. Empty riverbeds and other telltale features speak to an abundance of surface water early in ...

One of the last things you'd think could be lost is a volcano. Yet, when we look at the record of volcanic activity, even in the past few hundred years, there are signals that a large eruption ...

Northern California’s Sáttítla Highlands are a testament to the region’s volcanic past, with the landscape dramatically shaped by millions of years of eruptions. The area, dominated by the expansive ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient ...