Volcanic Activity Increases On Alaska's Mount Pavlof
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Alaska’s Pavlof Volcano, which roared back to life on May 13, continues to send ash and steam nearly 20,000 feet into the air, just below the threshold that experts deem becomes a...
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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Last month, Earth science researchers from NASA traveled to Turrialba Volcano near San Jose, Costa Rica. The research team was there to study the chemical environment of the volcano by flying a Dragon Eye unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into the sulfur dioxide plume and over its summit crater. The UAV – a small electric aircraft equipped with cameras and sensors – will help the scientists improve the remote-sensing capabilities of...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists analyzing data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft say that Mercury once harbored an ancient magma ocean. An MIT team of scientists say that Mercury may have had a large ocean of magma very early in its history, shortly after its formation about 4.5 billion years ago. A group of scientists analyzed X-ray fluorescence data from MESSENGER collected back in 2011. They were able to identify two distinct compositions of rocks on...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Neither explosive nor effusive—there’s a new type of volcanic eruption that was recently described in the latest edition of Nature Geoscience. According to the U.K. and New Zealand scientists who authored the description, volcanic pumice produced by the Macauley volcano in the southwest Pacific is the result of a previously unarticulated type of eruption. “By documenting the shape and density of bubbles in pumices generated by...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers for the first time have discovered evidence supporting the theory that the processes that act as catalysts for volcanic activity today are similar to those that occurred nearly four billion years ago. Writing in the journal Geology, Frances Jenner of the Carnegie Institution for Science and colleagues report that 3.8 billion-year-old volcanic rocks recovered from an island in southwestern Greenland support previous...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a new study by researchers at Rice University, the Earth's mantle magma melts far hotter and deeper in the Earth's core than previously thought, a discovery that will have lasting implications for our understanding of the planet's geophysical and geochemical properties. The research team, led by Rajdeep Dasgupta, put small amounts of peridotite under large pressures in a laboratory to determine that rock can and does...
ALBANY, New York, December 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com) "Magnesium Oxide Nanopowder Market- Global Industry Analysis, Market Size, Share, Trends, Analysis, Growth and Forecast, 2012 - 2018," the global magnesium oxide nanopowder demand was worth USD 18.3 million in 2011 and is expected to reach USD 31.2 million in 2018, growing at a CAGR of about 8.7% from 2013 to...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Even though two-thirds of the Earth's solid surface is covered with oceanic crust, scientists still do not entirely understood the process by which it is made. But a recent study from the Carnegie Institution for Science, which analyzed more than 600 samples of oceanic crust, reveals a systemic pattern that alters long-held beliefs about how the process works. Findings of this study, published in the journal Nature, explain a...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Although less than two percent of the fossils on earth are preserved in volcanic rock, researchers from the University of Montpellier have identified a new one. They found the skull of a rhino that perished in a volcanic eruption 9.2 million years ago. Found in Turkey, the fossil is thought to be that of a large two-horned rhino (Ceratotherium neumayri) that was common in the Eastern Mediterranean during that period. The unusual...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online From Pompeii to Mount St. Helens, we humans have watched in awe, and sometimes horror, the magnificence of volcanic eruptions. As detailed in a great article earlier this month by redOrbit’s own Lee Rannals, monogenetic volcanoes, volcanoes erupting due to the combination of water and magma, are driven by a rapid expansion of gas bubbles that form as the water, previously trapped in molten rock, rises beneath the volcano....
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Scientists have identified a trigger for the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth, according to a report published in the journal Scientific Reports. University of Southampton researchers investigated crystal cumulate nodules and their trapped magma to see what caused eruptions at the Las Cañadas volcanic caldera on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. This volcano has generated at least eight major eruptions during the last...
