Volcanoes Blog Posts

An ash plume drifts from Paluweh volcano in Indonesia in this image, taken April 29, 2013 from the Landsat Data Continuity Misison's Operational Land Imager instrument. (Credit: Robert Simmon, NASA's Earth Observatory, using data from USGS and NAS...

Sulfur isotopes within iron sulfide inclusions in volcanic rocks, like this one from Iceland, demonstrate that sulfur derived from the Earth’s ancient atmosphere was preserved within the mantle for at least 2.54 billion years before coming back...

Molten magma erupted onto the seafloor freezes to glass that contains clues to its origin in Earth's deep interior and ancient past (field of view ~1 cm). Volcanic glasses like this one may reveal a link between Earth's oxidation state and the dee...

New study supports theory that Earth’s earliest crust was folded back into its mantle and returned to the surface in volcanoes An international team of researchers, including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, geochemist James D...

Redoubt Volcano. (Credit: Courtesy of USGS) Forecasting volcanic eruptions with success is heavily dependent on recognizing well-established patterns of pre-eruption unrest in the monitoring data. But in order to develop better monitoring procedur...

Geologists at summit of Kima'Kho volcano look to the east and south across the Kawdy plateau. The plateau hosts at least six other tuyas. (Credit: UBC Science) Deposits left by the eruption of a subglacial volcano, or tuya, 1.8 million years ago...

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The northeastern part of Yellowstone Caldera, with the Yellowstone River flowing through Hayden Valley and the caldera rim in the distance A debate among scientists about the geologic formation of the supervolcano encompassing the region around Yel...

This is a simulation of the May 18, 1980 blast at Mount St. Helens (USA) at 380 seconds. (Credit: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy.) A 3-D model of a volcanic explosion, based on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washi...

The deep melting region where magma is generated in the mantle beneath the mid-ocean ridge volcano. Green to red colors show regions of partially molten material created by upwelling due to the divergence of the Pacific and Cocos tectonic plates.

Along sea cliffs in southern England, geologist Paul Olsen of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory samples rocks from near the 201,564,000-year Triassic extinction boundary. (Credit: Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute) Mar. 21, 201...

This shows the bipolar matching of volcanic acidity spikes (sulphate) in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores at around the Toba eruption. (Credit: Niels Bohr Institute) Nov. 5, 2012 — The largest volcanic eruption on Earth in the past millions of...

Image of southwest Greenland. (Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, courtesy of NASA Visible Earth) Researchers still have much to learn about the volcanism that shaped our planet's early history. New evidence from a team le...

Macauley volcano. (Credit: Courtesy of National Oceanography Centre & National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) Scientists based in the UK and New Zealand have described a "new" type of volcanic eruption. Volcanic eruptions are co...

In the dim light of dusk the landscape ahead was changing into an out of this world barren land. The last sun beams were hanging on the sandy hills, turning them red, as if they were on fire. Vegetation was … Continue reading »...

        Anyone that has got in touch with me at least a bit, knows I really love Europe, especially Romania, to a point of an addiction that, considering how much it influences my mood, can become quite worrisome. (What I lov...

Hawaii is one of the most visited tourist locations in the world. It is situated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between Australia and the mainland United States. Hawaii is known for its extraordinary beauty and pleasant climate throughout …...

a new refreshing tea house comes to the Philippines with it's first branch opening at the busy district of Makati. with ingredients picked from the Ali Mountain of Taiwan, A Gan Tea will surely soothe your thirst especially this summer.A-Gan Tea pick...

The Philippine National Men's Rugby team known as the Philippine Volcanoes cruised out an easy win against Singapore, 37-20 at the Rizal Memorial Stadium at the start of its campaign in the Asian Five Nations Division 1 Tournament.  “It’s...

“Nevado de Toluca” is a large stratovolcano in central Mexico, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Mexico City near the city of Toluca. It is generally cited as the fourth highest of Mexico's peaks,...