Volcano thought dormant suddenly roars into life & RISES from earth sparking fears of first eruption in 700k years

A VOLCANO thought to be dead has roared into life and risen from the ground – sparking fears of its first eruption for ...
Omaha.com

Blue Sky Science: How do volcanoes form?

Q How do volcanoes form, and how did the volcano of Pompeii show up? — Andrew Vigliotta, Mount Horeb, Wis. A Clifford Thurber, professor of geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Some ...
The New York Times

How Do Volcanic Smoke Rings Form? New Clues in the Vapor.

Some scientists think we can better understand volcanoes by learning how the gaseous vortexes emerge. By Carolyn Wilke Some volcanoes perform a rather subtle trick: blowing rings of vapor that waft ...
New Scientist

There’s a huge radioactive slab of volcanic granite buried on the moon

The far side of the moon is hiding evidence of an enormous ancient volcano. But even though researchers are sure the volcano was there, they remain mystified about how it could have formed. For more ...
Yahoo

Meteorites and volcanoes may have helped jump-start life on Earth

Iron particles, from meteorites or volcanic ash, could have catalyzed the chemical reactions that formed the building blocks of life over four billion years ago on Earth, a new study suggests. The ...
KOIN 6

ERUPTION! Learning more about volcano types

Editor’s note: The KOIN 6 Weather team is presenting weather and science lessons to help serve our teachers and students. Click here for more lessons. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The mighty mountains of ...
Richmond

Blue Sky Science: How do volcanoes form?

Some volcanoes, such as the Cascade volcanoes up in Washington and Oregon, are of the type called a stratovolcano. These steep volcanoes sometimes erupt explosively and other times have calmer lava ...