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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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4700 years ago, in the place where Santorini archipelago is located today, occurred a devastating huge volcanic explosion. This eruption sank most of the land where now the Greek islands are located and killed over 35,000 people and the thriving Minoan civilization.All this is connected today to the myth of the Atlan... |
3 April 2007 05:35 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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In places where the Earth's tectonic plates collide or diverge, volcanoes appear. Volcanoes can be terrestrial or submarine. There can be submarine volcanoes, which erupt periodically, but also phenomena similar to others that accompany terrestrial volcanoes, like submarine correspondent of the geysers, named hy... |
13 March 2007 12:08 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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