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Although the birth of an ocean is an extremely rare phenomenon on the largest of historical scales, the geophysics is currently experiencing such an event. Even more dazzling, this occurs in one of the Earth's most inhospitable and arid regions, the Afar Depression in Ethiopia.The African continent is literally ... |
1 October 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Volcanoes are the result of the tectonic movements of the Earth's crust, when magma from the entrails of the planet goes out as lava. They became present in the legends and mythology of all people living around them, which venerated and feared them at the same time. There are submarine and terrestrial volcanoes,... |
19 April 2008
07:57 GMT |
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Japan has about 200 volcanoes, of which 70 are active. The most famous Japanese volcano is Fujiyama. But this one erupted last time in 1707. Others are not that peaceful. Usu, from the island of Hokkaido, has a bizarre behavior and look. At each eruption, the underground magma rises, forming amazing mounds, from a fe... |
16 April 2008
10:25 GMT |
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This is like a wound that never gets closed. In one of the hottest spots of the Earth, in the desert of northern Ethiopia, where even in the winter temperatures vary between 40 to 50oC, the volcano Erta Ale was discovered by the Europeans in 1906. The volcano is active for hundreds of years. Most volcanoes manifest t... |
24 March 2008
10:19 GMT |
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The MESSENGER spacecraft made a successful fly-by of the planet Mercury last week, taking more than 1,200 pictures of the surface, some of them showing what seems to be evidence of past lava flows. Planetary scientist David Rothery said that the lava flow actually sits on top of the original surface crust that formed... |
22 January 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Vulcan was the Roman god of fire, the equivalent of Hephaistos in the Greek mythology. In ancient times people regarded volcanoes as gods, which were worshiped. Old Greeks believed the Earth was a floating disc over the surface of an ocean whose storms triggered earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Anaximander (611-54... |
17 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The world "volcano" comes from the Roman god of fire Vulcan, the equivalent of Hephaistos in the Greek mythology. In the ancient times, people attributed to the volcanoes a supernatural personality, which was worshiped. Old Greeks believed the Earth was a floating disc over the surface of an ocean whose storms trigge... |
3 November 2007
07:07 GMT |
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Volcanoes are the result of the tectonic movements of the Earth's crust, when magma from the entrails of the planet goes out as lava. They became present in the legends and mythology of all people living around them, which venerated and feared them at the same time. There are submarine and terrestrial volcanoes,... |
24 April 2007
12:21 GMT |
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Northwestern US is not given to rest: Mount St. Helens seems to enter the same cycle followed by Kilauea in Hawaii with magma being replaced from an reservoir located under the volcano at the same pace as it goes out as lava at the surface. "While the two volcanoes are different in many respects, St. Helens appears t... |
30 March 2007
10:11 GMT |
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Scientists have noticed a long time ago that Mars' northern and southern hemispheres are very different. While the northern hemisphere is much flatter, it is also lower than the southern hemisphere, with an elevation difference between the two of about 5 km (3 mi).In the 1980s, researchers supposed that the coll... |
16 March 2007
04:22 GMT |
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During the antiquity, people attributed to the volcanoes a supernatural personality, which was worshiped. Now, researchers just focus on achieving the right methods of preventing the volcanic eruptions and decreasing the damages they inflict.Under the terrestrial crust, the rocks are under molten stage, forming the m... |
8 March 2007
09:45 GMT |
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