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Micrograph of a recrystallized quartz aggregate from a high-temperature shear zone in Italy’s Truzzo granite, showing a grain boundary migration microstructure.
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Despite Dryness, Quartz Grains Can Deform in Earth's Crust

by Terri Cook 6 June 20161 October 2021

A comparison of water content in undeformed and deformed quartz indicates that grains may change shape via weakening processes that cannot be duplicated in laboratory experiments.

Micrographs of melted asperities due to flash heating during laboratory earthquakes.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Flash Heating May Lubricate Rubbing Rock Faces in Earthquakes

by David Shultz 24 May 20166 October 2021

A new laboratory study examines the small-scale physics at play as two pieces of granite are smashed together in a scaled-down version of a real earthquake.

Satellite image of the island of Hawaii.
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A Hole in Earth’s Surface

by W. Yan 26 April 20169 November 2022

Research shows that a broken lithosphere underneath the island of Hawai'i could explain the island's patterns of seismic activity.

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Icelandic Eruption Caused Record-Breaking Sulfur Dioxide Release

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 14 March 20168 October 2021

Satellite and ground-based data reveal sulfur dioxide flux, trace element release, and preeruption magma movement.

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Can We Predict How Volcanic Ash Disperses After an Eruption?

by W. Yan 23 February 201615 March 2022

Researchers investigate what factors influence how particles from a plume spread following a volcanic eruption.

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Can Meteorite Impacts Disturb a Planet's Magnetic Field?

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 8 February 201628 January 2022

Such disturbances probably do not occur on our own planet, but evidence for them might still exist elsewhere in the solar system.

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Massive Carbon Dioxide Stores Beneath Mammoth Mountain

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 2 February 201611 May 2022

Gas in rocky pores beneath the surface of California's Mammoth Mountain could fuel dangerous carbon dioxide emissions for the next 28 to 1100 years.

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Hawaii’s Swelling Lava Lake Charts a Volcano’s Hidden Plumbing

by E. Betz 30 December 20159 March 2023

Geophysicists used unique seismic signatures to track the cyclic rise and fall of lava inside Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park's Overlook crater.

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Aftershocks of Old Quakes Still Shake New Madrid Seismic Zone

by L. Strelich 24 November 201518 October 2022

Geodetic data show that earthquakes in 1450 and 1811–1812 may be responsible for present-day seismic activity in the region.

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Wharton Basin Earthquakes: Evidence for a New Plate Boundary?

by Terri Cook 11 November 20154 February 2022

The largest ever strike-slip earthquake may have occurred on a newly developing boundary between the Indian and Australian plates.

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