The cylindrical crater of Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador forces air to reverberate against the crater walls, creating sounds like those made by a pipe organ.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
Meanwhile, some scientists say that the 35-year eruption from the Pu‘u Ō‘ō vent has ended and that the flows since 3 May are a new eruption. Others take issue with this view.Read More »
A volcanically heated Costa Rican lake hosts only one type of organism, suggesting that its Mars-like environment is just barely capable of supporting life.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
An integrated interpretation of well and seismic reflection data from Italy’s Po Valley shows the range’s undulations are controlled by the slope and composition of two major gliding horizons.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
Geographic information system software, created for mapping cities and continents, works equally well with the minuscule layers and inclusions that record a crystal's history.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
By keenly probing mantle rheology, interactions of deformations and phase transitions, and microscopic features, he made major contributions to petrology, mineralogy, and earthquake science.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Data from the 2015 eruption of Chile’s Calbuco volcano suggest the international network built to monitor nuclear explosions may also be used to detect and characterize volcanic activity.Read More »
