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BLOBS on the move: Deep Earth structures may explain giant volcanic explosions
Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...
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The Ice Is Melting—And It’s Setting Off Volcanoes Across the Planet
As global temperatures continue to rise, the receding ice could be setting off explosive eruptions in regions already dotted ...
Antarctica’s Hidden Volcanoes: How Retreating Ice Might Ignite Hundreds of Explosive Eruptions
Melting glaciers may be setting off volcanoes worldwide, triggering eruptions and possibly accelerating climate change.
Where do giant volcanic eruptions come from? New study finds missing link to ‘blobs’ deep within Earth
Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 ...
The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of lethal heat. New fossils explain why
A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...
Melting glaciers could trigger hundreds of dormant volcanoes and spark a wave of explosions across the globe, says study
Since the 1970s, scientists have suggested that disappearing ice might release pressure in Earth's crust. As gases and magma ...
A Fragment of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...