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Scientists determine source of world’s largest mud eruption

Geology Page - October 18, 2017

On May 29, 2006, mud started erupting from several sites on the Indonesian island of Java. Boiling mud, water, rocks and gas poured from...

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Geology Page - May 24, 2016

A Mudpot "or Mud Pool" is a sort of acidic hot spring, or fumarole, with limited water. It usually takes the form of a...

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The mineral olivine contains melt inclusions (black dots), just a few micrometers in size. The geochemists isolated these inclusions and investigated the isotopic composition with mass spectrometers. Credit: Münster University - Felix Genske

Geochemists measure new composition of Earth’s mantle

September 16, 2019

Campi Flegrei caldera cluster

Mysterious Large-Magnitude Eruption that Covered the Mediterranean

April 28, 2019

This is professor Rais Latypov in front of an example of the stratified chromite layers.

New study reveals the secret of magmas that produce South Africa’s...

March 1, 2018

Fossilised 20 centimetre long hand claw of theropod discovered at Eric the West site on Victoria’s Otway Coast. Credit: Stephen Poropat/Museums Victoria

Huge-clawed predatory dinosaur discovery in Victoria

November 2, 2019

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