|
|
Eifuku volcano
(Preview)
Mussels Living in Extremely Acidic Water on a Submarine Volcano With respect to the effects of ocean acidification on various forms of marine life, the authors write that "experiments provide insight into instantaneous responses of organisms to increased CO2 levels, but information from...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
Salton Buttes
(Preview)
Salton Sea volcanoes much younger than previously thought The Salton Buttes, a line of four small volcanoes on the Salton Seas southeastern shore, are not only still considered active by scientists, new research indicates they last erupted thousands of years more recently than previously thoug...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
Vulkan Alaid volcano
(Preview)
Kuril's Alaid volcano wakes up The Kuril Island volcano named Alaid, in Russia's Far East has begun spewing ash with the giant ash cloud rising to an altitude of up to 700 meters. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
Gabon Underwater Volcano
(Preview)
Gabon Expedition: The Lost Underwater Volcano Today we explored a seamount that is not on the nautical charts. It is about 20 miles off the coast of Gabon, and we had little hope to find it. A local fisher gave us GPS coordinates, and we followed them. But in our sonar we could only see a vast expanse of dee...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
Cotopaxi
(Preview)
Cotopaxi is the tallest active volcano in the world, at 5897 metres, 50 kilometres wide and with a dollop of white snow spooned on top. Of the active volcanoes along the Avenida de los Volcanes, the main Ecuadorian volcanic arc, Cotopaxi is the one to "watch"; it last erupted in 1877, coati...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
Mount Rokatenda
(Preview)
East Nusa Tenggara Volcano Erupts, Two Others on Alert Hundreds of villagers near Mount Rokatenda on Palue Island in Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara, have been evacuated after the volcano erupted on Thursday. Two other volcanoes in the province are reportedly on alert as well. [url=http://www.theja...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
Altiplano-Puna plateau
(Preview)
Giant Magma Bubble in South America Looks Just Like a Sombrero Geologists have found a giant magma bubble that appears to look like a sombrero. Magma bubbles are pockets of air that form in the magma of a volcano; they are usually small in size. This bubble is not only unique for its shape, but it also hap...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
Volcano Notification Service
(Preview)
Volcano Notification Service Available The U.S. Geological Survey Volcano Notification Service is now available for subscription. VNS is a free service that sends email notifications about the status of volcanic activity and other significant events at volcanoes in the United States. [url=...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
Mount Lokon
(Preview)
Mount Lokon, together with Mount Empung, is a twin volcano (2.2 km apart) in the northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
9
|
|
|
|
|
Monogenetic volcanoes
(Preview)
The Brief but Violent Life of Monogenetic Volcanoes A new study in the journal Geology is shedding light on the brief but violent lives of maar-diatreme volcanoes, which erupt when magma and water meet in an explosive marriage below the surface of the earth. Maar-diatremes belong to a family of volc...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
Newberry Volcano
(Preview)
Newberry Volcano (with Newberry Caldera) is a large potentially active shield volcano located 40 miles (64 km) east of the Cascade Range and about 32 km southeast of Bend, Oregon. It is not a typical shield volcano. In addition to erupting basaltic lavas, it also has erupted andesitic and even rhyol...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
Chennai submarine volcano
(Preview)
Dormant undersea volcano near Kalpakkam atomic plant? Even as massive protests have stalled the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear plant, activists have now raised concerns over the safety of another nuclear site in Tamil Nadu. The activists claim that there is documentary evidence that t...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
Mount Gamalama
(Preview)
Indonesia's Mount Gamalama volcano erupts showering nearby Ternate with ash Indonesia's Mount Gamalama volcano erupts showering nearby Ternate with ash from a cloud that stretched 1,000m above the peak. Report by Mark Morris.
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
Lanzarote
(Preview)
Timanfaya National Park or Parque Nacional de Timanfaya is a Spanish national park covering the municipalities of southern portion of Tinajo and the northern portion of Yaiza in the southwestern part of the island of Lanzarote. The greatest recorded eruptions occurred between 1730 and 1736. Rea...
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
Lake Nyos
(Preview)
On August 21, 1986, possibly triggered by a landslide, Lake Nyos suddenly emitted a large cloud of CO2, which suffocated 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby towns and villages. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
1
|
|
|