Las estrategias pensadas para ciudades enteras para hacer frente al cambio climático pueden beneficiarse de los conocimientos de los vulcanólogos, que llevan mucho tiempo adaptando la información y la comunicación sobre riesgos a las comunidades locales.
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The Deep Frontier of Mantle Magma Supply
Compared with crustal magma systems, little is known about the deep sources of volcanic supply chains. Interdisciplinary efforts can help answer key questions about how magma migrates from the mantle.
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Water Stored in the Mantle for Millions of Years May Be Linked to Continental Volcanism
New research shows that intraplate volcanism is more likely to occur over areas of the mantle that are more hydrated—particularly those that have been hydrated for a long, long time.
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Observing Magma-Induced Seismic Velocity Changes with Fiber-Optics
A new high-resolution method for tracking volcanic activity utilizes fiber-optic sensing to detect magma intrusion by measuring seismic velocity changes.
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Cave Deposit Links Greenland’s and Europe’s Climate Records with a German Volcano
Dating a late Pleistocene eruption has big implications for understanding the Younger Dryas—and current climate change.
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Magma Beneath Yellowstone Is Shifting Northeast
Though the volcano’s magma chambers could hold enough material for a caldera-forming event, none of them are likely to erupt soon.
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Ice Core Records Shed Light on a Volcanic Mystery
By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as the site of an unidentified 19th century eruption.
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Nevada tiene montones de litio. Esta es la razón.
Nevada se está convirtiendo en un gran productor de litio, gracias a la topografía, el clima y la serendipia geológica.
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Antarctic Ice Melt May Fuel Eruptions of Hidden Volcanoes
More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off.
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Magmatic Fluids and Melts May Lie Beneath Dormant German Volcanoes
New processing strategies applied to old seismic data reveal potential pockets of magmatic fluids or melts from the upper mantle.