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| Volcanoes‘ Plumbing Holds Clues to Eruptions LiveScience.com New research looking at volcanoes in Iceland and the Afar region of Ethiopia — the two areas where mid-ocean ridges, where Earth’s tectonic plates are moving apart, are visible at the surface of the Earth — found that the underground caverns holding … See all stories on this topic » |
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| How to Trigger a Volcanic Eruption on Purpose Wired News Secondly, I was asked some questions about Richard Branson’s April Fools’ joke regarding the supposed Virgin Volcanic that would send a manned submersible into a volcano. Put these two ideas together, and you get to wondering about that age-old … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Lee Bidgood, Jr: The next mass extinction event Gainesville Sun Scientists discovered that around 74000 years ago, the Toba super volcano erupted on Sumatra, an Indonesian island. This “mega-colossal” eruption and its aftermath wiped out India’s forests and probably decimated plants and animals worldwide. See all stories on this topic » |
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| Photos: Sicily’s Mount Etna erupts in spectacular show Mother Nature Network By Caitlin LearyWed, Apr 04 2012 at 11:27 AM EST Fountains of lava and ash spew out of Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, in the early morning of April 1 on the Italian island of Sicily. The photo was captured by volcanologist Boris … See all stories on this topic » |
