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Long Distance: Research Shows Ancient Rock Under Haiti Came from 1,000+ Miles Away
July 12, 2011 Earthquakes and volcanoes are known for their ability to transform Earth's surface, but new research in the Caribbean has found they can also move ancient Earth rock foundations more than 1,000 ... > full story -
Underwater Antarctic Volcanoes Discovered in the Southern Ocean
July 11, 2011 Scientists have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands. Using ship-borne sea-floor mapping technology during research cruises onboard the ... > full story -
Australian Volcano Eruptions Overdue, New Study Confirms
July 5, 2011 Latest research into the age of volcanos in parts of Australia has confirmed that certain regions are overdue for an eruption, potentially affecting thousands of local ... > full story -
GOES Satellites See Ash Still Spewing from Chilean Volcano
June 29, 2011 The Puyehue-Cordon volcano in Chile continues to spew ash that is still disrupting travel as far as Australia and New Zealand this ... > full story -
NASA Satellite Gallery Shows Chilean Volcano Plume Moving Around the World
June 15, 2011 Since its eruption in early June, several NASA satellites have captured images of the ash plume from the eruption of the Chilean Volcano called Puyehue-Cordón Caulle and have tracked it around ... > full story -
Earth from Space: A Gush of Volcanic Gas
June 10, 2011 A new image shows the huge plume of sulphur dioxide that spewed from Chile’s Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex, which lies in the Andes about 600 km south of ... > full story -
Satellites See Eruption of Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Volcano from Space
June 6, 2011 NASA's Terra Satellite, the GOES-13 and GOES-11 satellites all captured images of the ash plume from southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Volcano. The volcano is located in Puyehue National Park in ... > full story -
3-D Model Mimics Volcanic Explosions
June 1, 2011 A 3-D model of a volcanic explosion, based on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state, may enhance our understanding of how some volcanic explosions occur and help identification of ... > full story -
Bleach in the Icelandic Volcanic Cloud
May 27, 2011 Chlorine in the ash plume of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull attacked atmospheric trace gases. One year after the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland brought European air traffic to ... > full story -
Novel Ash Analysis Validates Volcano No-Fly Zones
April 26, 2011 Air safety authorities essentially had to fly blind when the ash cloud from Eyjafjallajökull caused them to close the airspace over Europe last year. Now nanoscientists have developed a way to ... > full story
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