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An outcrop of the Franciscan complex on Santa Catalina Island in California, with white quartz veins crosscut by pale beige silicic magmatic dikes
Posted inScience Updates

Modeling Fluid Migration in Subduction Zones

by I. Wada and Leif Karlstrom 16 June 202022 March 2022

Scientists from different disciplines are working together to identify common challenges in and techniques for modeling fluid migration associated with subduction zone processes.

Images capturing five moments in the sequence after a fluidized granular flow enters water
Posted inEditors' Highlights

The Ability of Pyroclastic Flows to Generate Tsunamis

by M. Pistolesi 11 June 20205 June 2023

Lab experiments of fluidized granular flows entering the water shed light on the dynamics of tsunami generation by fast-moving, pyroclastic density currents at volcanic islands or coastal volcanoes.

Map of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc showing the subduction zone trench and the location of two Deep Sea Drilling Cores
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Extremely High Carbon Return in Certain Volcanic Arcs

by S. D. Jacobsen 3 June 202023 September 2022

By comparing measured volcanic output with subducted carbon fluxes from drill cores, the Lesser Antilles subduction zone shows nearly complete slab carbon release at sub-arc depths.

Map of Axial Seamount’s summit caldera
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Volcano Monitoring Goes Offshore

by Yosuke Aoki 26 May 20202 August 2022

Offshore observations by cabled ocean-bottom pressure recorders have revealed details of the 2015 eruption of Axial Seamount submarine volcano in the Pacific Ocean.

A scientist surveys a smoking Mount St. Helens in a wintry landscape.
Posted inNews

An Iconic Eruption Shaped Careers, as well as Landscapes

Jane Palmer, Science Writer by Jane Palmer 26 May 202012 April 2022

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens influenced scientists who witnessed the event and spurred a new era in physical volcanology.

Black-and-white image of the Martian landscape feature Medusae Fossae
Posted inNews

Scientists Float a New Theory on the Medusae Fossae Formation

Nola Taylor Redd, Science Writer by Nola Taylor Tillman 19 May 202025 August 2022

Pumice-like rafts of lightweight material could have carried volcanic debris across an ancient Martian ocean to build one of the most puzzling features on the Red Planet.

Aerial image of the summit caldera of Erta Ale volcano
Posted inNews

Are We Seeing a New Ocean Starting to Form in Africa?

Erik Klemetti, Science Writer by Erik Klemetti 8 May 202018 October 2022

Although shallow magma storage at Erta Ale volcano hints at a rift-to-ridge transition, the tectonic future of the Afar region is far from certain.

Aerial view of Laacher See in western Germany
Posted inScience Updates

Messages in the Bubbles

by Corentin Caudron, Marc De Batist, Guillaume Jouve, Guillaume Matte, Thomas Hermans, Adrian Flores-Orozco, Wim Versteeg, Zakaria Ghazoui, Philippe Roux, Jean Vandemeulebrouck and Bernd Schmidt 30 April 202021 August 2024

Laacher See volcano is quiet, but gas bubbles rising through the overlying lake are a reminder of its potential hazard. Scientists took a close look at the bubbles to test eruption monitoring methods.

A view looking southeast toward Mount St. Helens from the Castle Lake Viewpoint in June 2017
Posted inFeatures

Lessons from a Post-Eruption Landscape

by J. J. Major, C. M. Crisafulli and F. J. Swanson 24 April 20205 June 2023

Four decades of research into biophysical responses to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens have vastly improved our understanding of how landscapes react to cataclysmic disturbances.

Illustration of lightning at Jupiter’s north pole
Posted inFeatures

Planetary Lightning: Same Physics, Distant Worlds

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 24 April 202012 April 2022

Lightning on Earth needs just a few simple ingredients to generate a spark. Those ingredients exist throughout the solar system and beyond.

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