In this photo released by Geological Agency (Badan Geologi) of the Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, ...

In a remarkable turn of events, a temporary volcanic island formed and quickly vanished in the Caspian Sea. Captured by NASA ...

Over geological timescales, lava can flood the planet's surface, filling in craters and creating a more youthful appearance than Venus' true age of 4.5 billion years.

Although researchers did predict the Axial Seamount would erupt in 2025, people on the Pacific coast shouldn't worry about ...

Learn about cryovolcanism, which shapes the surface of icy moons in the outer Solar System by releasing water that ...

Venus also has thousands of active volcanoes, but the mechanism of the planet's geological activity is still a mystery. A team from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has a novel suggestion.

The Nevado del Ruiz volcano sits about 80 miles west of Bogotá, and according to Colombia’s Geological Survey, an earthquake swarm has increased to levels not seen since a disastrous eruption ...

Simon Carn, a world authority on satellite-powered analysis of global volcanic activity, is the winner of the 2024 Michigan Technological University Research Award. Carn has scaled many mountains ...

Scientists nicknamed this stage of geological history, and others like it, Snowball Earth. What exactly froze the planet nearly solid has been a mystery, as has how it remained that way for 56 ...

geol 7 - Natural Disasters - 3 Units Examination of earth materials and earth processes through the study of natural disasters. Topics include earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, tsunamis, ...

Yet Venus does not have plate tectonics, so it cannot renew its surface in the same way that Earth does over geological time periods. What Venus does have is volcanoes, and a lot of them — more ...