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Small undersea volcanoes may unleash outsized tsunamis
Post-eruption imaging of the Hunga caldera gives new details of its collapse. The Hunga volcano during a 2009 eruption. Credit: […]
Prehistoric builders transported Devil’s Arrows 11 miles
Clarke et al. took samples from all three Devil’s Arrows stones, as well as from the Battle Cross monument and […]
Mount Toba eruption doesn’t seem like it could nearly kill our species
The massive Toba eruption seems to have had little climate impact. A lake now fills the caldera that was emptied […]
Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact
Skip to content “We’re in the realm where we might be essentially killing off everything within that first hour or […]
Ocean rift zone saw spreading happen in a sudden burst
Skip to content The crust expands at mid-ocean rifts. But how? One of the central features of plate tectonics is […]
Feedbacks upon feedbacks: Rock weathering and the climate
“Lo and behold, we end up finding that we can explain this apparent discrepancy,” said Hilton. In other words, weathering […]
Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.
Skip to content Getting carbon and sulfur into Earth’s interior may be part of oxygen’s story. Planet Earth has some […]
Huge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area
Fortunately, it happened early in the morning, so nobody was around. The narrow confines of the fjord led to a […]
New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone
A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yellowstone. Grand Prismatic Spring Yellowstone National Park Credit: Deb […]