Category Archives: Volcanoes

Earth Scientists Say to Jupiter’s Moon Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the whole Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes, some erupting lava fountains up to 250 miles high. But, concentrations of volcanic activity are significantly displaced from where they are expected … Continue reading →

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Montmorillonite Clay

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

Montmorillonite is a very soft phyllosilicate group of minerals that typically form in microscopic crystals, forming a clay. It is named after Montmorillon in France. Montmorillonite, a member of the smectite family, is a 2:1 clay, meaning that it has … Continue reading →

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Synthetic Aperture Radar Using ‘Inflation’ Monitoring could Predict Volcanic Eruptions

Posted on November 10, 2012 by

The world’s deadliest and largest volcanic eruptions happen in Indonesia. Future eruptions in this jungle-filled region could be better predicted by using satellite radar to detect swelling magma near the summit of those volcanoes, a new study suggests. To search … Continue reading →

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Spiral Lava Flow On Mars!!

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars show coiling spiral patterns  resembling snail or nautilus shells. The discovery, made by Arizona State University graduate student Andrew Ryan, was published in a paper published April 27, 2012, in the scientific journal Science.The new discovery is the … Continue reading →

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Cleveland volcano in Alaska Could Erupt at Any Moment

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

The Alaska Volcano Observatory has issued an eruption advisory for the 5,676 foot-tall Cleveland Volcano, located on the uninhabited island of Chuginadak in the Aleutian chain about 940 miles southwest of Anchorage. The advisory was based on “thermal anomalies” detected … Continue reading →

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ISRO finds cave in moon on analysis of Chandrayan-1 data

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization have discovered a giant underground chamber on the moon, which they feel could be used as a base by astronauts on future manned missions to moon.An analysis by an instrument on Chandrayaan-1 revealed … Continue reading →

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Yellowstone Magna

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

Yellowstone Park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming ( though it also extends into Montana and Idaho) is  a dormant  volcano  full of fuming vents and hot geysers. A plume of molten rock rising from deep beneath Yellowstone … Continue reading →

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Oceanic Volcanos

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

Though unseen the ocean floor is a volcanic hot bed where the tectonic plates collide and spread apart. New research reveals that when two parts of the Earth’s crust break apart, this does not always cause massive volcanic eruptions. The … Continue reading →

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