The main types of mountains — Earth’s ups and downs
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Tag: volcanoes
Is climate change causing more volcanic eruptions? Iceland provides some hints
Volcanoes themselves can also impact the climate, due to a “cooling effect” that comes after eruptions.
NASA snaps beautiful picture of Mars as it inches over towards Earth
NASA astronomers captured a beautiful image of Mars on May 12, when the planet was just 50 million miles away ...
Volcanic twins of the Red Sea: Sholan and Jadid
We tend to think of the planets as static, enduring, and never changing. With the average human life spanning only ...
Mount Doom from LOTR set to erupt – in real life
Mount Ruapehu is the highest mountain on the North Island. For his fantastic Lord of the Rings trilogy, director Peter ...
200 million years ago, half of all life on Earth went extint from a methane eruption
Around 200 million years ago, the Earth was still one big continent - the great Pangaea. Around that time came, ...
Hugely tall underwater volcanos discovered
In the first ever-survey of its kind, geologists have managed to discover a chain of massive underwater volcanoes, some as ...
Spledid photos from the Sakurajima volcano eruption
Sakurajima is probably the most active and dangerous volcano in Japan. Actually, one of its eruptions from back in 1914 ...
Volcanoes played an important role in the origin of life, scientists say
In 1953, chemists Harold Urey and Stanley Miller conducted one of the most famous experiments of the past century, commonly ...
