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Santorini: The Ground Is Moving Again in Paradise
March 13, 2012 — The Santorini caldera, which sits underneath a famous tourist destination, is awake again and rapidly deforming at levels never seen ... > full story -
NASA Radar to Study Hawaii's Most Active Volcano
January 9, 2012 — An airborne radar developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has returned to Hawaii to continue its study of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii's current most active ... > full story -
Tortoise Species Thought to Be Extinct Still Lives, Genetic Analysis Reveals
January 9, 2012 — Dozens of giant tortoises of a species believed extinct for 150 years may still be living at a remote location in the Galápagos Islands, a genetic analysis ... > full storyMore: -
Lava Fingerprinting Reveals Differences Between Hawaii's Twin Volcanoes
November 29, 2011 — Hawaii's main volcano chains -- the Loa and Kea trends -- have distinct sources of magma and unique plumbing systems connecting them to the Earth's deep mantle, according to new ... > full story -
Supervolcanoes: Not a Threat for 2012
November 15, 2011 — The geological record holds clues that throughout Earth's 4.5-billion-year lifetime massive supervolcanoes, far larger than Mount St. Helens or Mount Pinatubo, have erupted. However, despite the ... > full story -
Mapping the Formation of an Underwater Volcano
October 28, 2011 — On Oct. 9, 2011, an underwater volcano started to emerge in waters off El Hierro Island in the Canaries, Spain. Researchers only needed 15 days to map its formation in high resolution. The volcanic ... > full story -
Fiery Volcano Offers Geologic Glimpse Into Land That Time Forgot
October 19, 2011 — The first scientists to witness exploding rock and molten lava from a deep sea volcano, seen during a 2009 expedition, report that the eruption was near a tear in Earth's crust that is mimicking the ... > full story -
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CSI-Style Investigation of Meteorite Hits on Earth
October 18, 2011 — Volcanologists have forensically reconstructed the impact of a meteorite on Earth and how debris was hurled from the crater to devastate the surrounding ... > full story -
Possible Trigger for Volcanic 'Super-Eruptions' Discovered
October 12, 2011 — The "super-eruption" of a major volcanic system occurs about every 100,000 years and is considered one of the most catastrophic natural events on Earth, yet scientists have long been unsure about ... > full story -
Tenerife Geology Discovery Is Among 'World's Best': Holiday Island Landscape Reveals Explosive Past
October 3, 2011 — Volcanologists have uncovered one of the world's best-preserved accessible examples of a monstrous landslide that followed a huge volcanic eruption on the Canarian island of ... > full story
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