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A new study determines the influence of the topography over ...
The emplacement of small-volume (<0,1km3) pyroclastic flows is strongly controlled by topography, according to a new study made by researchers of the Institute of...
New study suggests gigantic masses in Earth’s mantle untouched for more...
Ancient, distinct, continent-sized regions of rocks, isolated since before the collision that created the Moon 4.5 billion years ago, exist hundreds of miles below...
Plate Tectonics
Study provides new insight into the origin of Las Cañadas caldera...
Las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Canary Islands) is the result of different episodes of caldera collapses, associated to large explosive eruptions that triggered several landslides...
Unusual fault rupture during Kaikōura quake
One of the 24-plus faults that ruptured in the 2016 magnitude 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake has turned out to be even more unusual than scientists...
Volcanoes
Ice core source discovery adds to study of volcanic activity, climate...
A new discovery by University of Maine researchers that challenges the established volcanic source of particles found in an ice core from the South...
Earthquake
Distinguishing earthquake foreshocks and aftershocks
Up to now, there was no way of predicting whether a powerful earthquake was likely to be followed by one of even greater magnitude....
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Atacama Desert microbes may hold clues to life on Mars
Microbial life on Mars may potentially be transported across the planet on dust particles carried by wind, according to a study conducted in the...
A material way to make Mars habitable
People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm...
Moon
Formation of the moon brought water to Earth
The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large...
Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup
For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how Earth's moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have...
