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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 -
Deep Recycling in Earth Faster Than Thought
August 10, 2011 — The recycling of Earth's crust in volcanoes happens much faster than scientists have previously assumed. Rock of the oceanic crust, which sinks deep into the earth due to the movement of tectonic ... > full story -
New Eruption Discovered at Undersea Volcano, After Successfully Forecasting the Event
August 9, 2011 — Scientists just discovered a new eruption of Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano located about 250 miles off the Oregon coast -- and one of the most active and intensely studied seamounts in the ... > full story -
Guam Researcher Studies Mount Pinatubo Ecosystem Recovery: Primary Succession on the Slopes
August 8, 2011 — A Guam ecologist recently mobilized efforts to characterize the vegetation that has recovered following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, ... > full story
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