A Twinkling Wonder Tucked away in New Zealand, the Waitomo Glowworm Caves offer a celestial experience. Visitors glide ...

Famed for its interlocking basalt columns, Giant’s Causeway Beach is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Volcanic activity created ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

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When this pressure is released, for example as a result of plate movement, magma shoots to the surface causing a volcanic eruption. Above the ground the liquid rock is called lava and as it cools ...

And the popular tourist destination Blue Lagoon, near where the seismic and volcanic activity has occurred, has been evacuated several times.

Some other examples of igneous intrusions in Scotland can be found at Dumbarton Rock (a volcanic plug in Dumbarton) and Loudoun Hill (a volcanic plug in Ayrshire). Learn more about some of the ...

The island is famed for its caldera – a bowl-shaped crater caused by a volcanic eruption – which was formed by one of the largest known blasts around 3,600 years ago. Santorini’s most recent ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...