In 1669, in what has been considered the volcano’s worst known eruption, lava buried a swath of Catania, about 15 miles away ...

The largest volcanoes in Earth’s history owe their formation to powerful geological phenomena called mantle plumes—upwellings of abnormally hot rock within the Earth’s mantle that rise toward the ...

The largest volcanoes in Earth’s history owe their formation to powerful geological phenomena called mantle plumes—upwellings of abnormally hot rock within the Earth’s mantle that rise toward the ...

A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth on Monday from Italy's Mount Etna as authorities warned people to steer clear ...

Why and how do volcanoes actually erupt? Volcanoes erupt when molten rock called magma rises to the surface. Magma is formed when the earth's mantle melts. Melting may happen where tectonic plates ...

Mountain interiors with their consistent temperature and humidity also provide suitable environmental conditions for preserving the conventional high explosives (used to compress the fissile material) ...

Methods: Field investigations, petrology, zircon U-Pb dating, and whole-rock geochemistry. Discussion: The chronology of volcanic rocks cross different formations of the Liaohe Group exhibiting no ...

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Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could unlock mysteries about Earth’s earliest history ...

Kid Rock has blamed America's declining birth rate on 'ugly' and 'deranged' Trump-hating liberal women. The musician, 54, made the outlandish claim Thursday night during an interview with Fox News ...

The scientists dated the rocks using zircon, a mineral in gneiss, the GSA said. "Dating zircon grains using ... techniques is now celebrated as the optimal method for determining when igneous ...