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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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Surface Folds Hint at Magnitude of Slip Along Thrust Faults

by J. Rosen 1 May 201525 August 2022

The shape of deformed sediments at the surface may allow researchers to estimate the cumulative slip along thrust faults such as the Chelungpu fault in Taiwan.

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Dry Minerals in the Lower Mantle

by S. Palus 10 April 201530 September 2023

Laboratory-made perovskite helps explain how water is distributed inside the Earth.

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Overriding Plate's Properties Affect Subduction

by C. Schultz 26 March 201530 September 2021

The properties of the plate that does not sink may strongly control subduction zone dynamics.

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Rapid Gas Hydrate Forms Pockmarks in Nigeria's Seafloor

by J. Orwig 12 February 201531 July 2023

The seafloor in deep water regions off the coast of Nigeria is speckled with pockmarks that scientists suggest were mainly made by the rapid formation of gas hydrate.

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