Just when we thought we were starting to understand the mysterious object 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, it has confounded us ...
Here’s hoping it’s nothing to blow your lid over. A normally quiet “high threat” volcano in Washington state has been rumbling at a record rate — prompting an alert from geologists who ...
New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...
NARRATOR: The physics may be the same: volcanoes driven by ancient internal heat moving towards equilibrium with the coldness of outer space. But one key difference caused a big change in how ...
That’s about when the Beemerville Volcano erupted in Wantage, give or take six million years, according to geologists. So much about New Jersey is familiar — the Jersey Shore, traffic jug ...
Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals ...
Among the snow-capped volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest, Mount Adams gets relatively little love. There are more glamorous volcanoes to climb (Mount Rainier) or to ski (Mount Hood) or that have ...
Further chemical analysis of the zircon crystals revealed that all had broadly the same composition, meaning they must have come from magma with the same composition as the "young" volcanoes.
Here’s how it works. In the year 946 CE, the Changbaishan-Tianchi volcano, on the border between China and North Korea, erupted ferociously. The eruption released dozens of cubic kilometers of ...
A couple's experience in a popular tourist attraction didn't go to plan when they were evacuated due to a volcano warning. Florida native Ale Kenney, 30, and her husband Andrew were enjoying a ...
That was reassuring, at least for the time being. The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland’s central highlands, uncorked in an explosive eruption in 1875.
The summit of Mount Spurr in 2020 (John Lyons/Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey) The Alaska Volcano Observatory raised its volcano alert level for Mount Spurr on Wednesday.