You may be looking at the crystal balls containing the volcano's history—and clues about its future. More information: Teresa Ubide, Volcanic crystal balls, Nature Geoscience (2024). DOI: 10. ...

Within the lava, and inside rocky shards jettisoned from the volcano’s multiple breaches, hide crystals that preserve the chemical material of the magmatic source deep below. By looking at these ...

Because these metals form when the Earth’s crust melts into magma, volcanoes—being geologic conduits for that magma—hold clues locked away in crystals known as “clinopyroxene,” which can ...

Like fortune tellers who peer into a crystal ball for insight, volcanologists at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory peer into the tiny crystals contained in lava flows to learn about the magma ...

Chinese geological experts said recently while prospecting the mud volcano in Dushanzi of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that the mud volcano is a rare natural landscape in the world and it's ...

The phantom landmass had emerged in the Caspian Sea following the 2023 eruption of the Kumani Bank mud volcano, which is located some 15 miles off the East coast of Azerbaijan, SWNS reported.

Dramatic video captured the moment a volcano erupted in Columbia on Monday, spewing mud and towering flames into the air as onlookers rushed to safety. The shocking eruption of the volcano known ...

This “mud volcano” was discovered by staff from the Glen Canyon Institute and the Returning Rapids Project, where Davide Ippolito is a boat operator, according to the Institute’s 2022 fall ...

The volcano itself—which the research team named the Borealis Mud Volcano—is fairly small, measuring only 8 feet tall and 23 feet wide. It is what is known as a mud volcano, a geological ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected] The Kumani Bank mud volcano, also known as Chigil-Deniz, a feature located roughly 15 miles off the eastern ...

The landmass, spotted by satellite in the Caspian Sea Feb. 14, 2023, is believed to have been birthed a month earlier by an eruption of the Kumani Bank mud volcano, the observatory said in a news ...

Teresa Ubide works for The University of Queensland. She receives funding from the Australian Research Council and infrastructure funding from AuScope NCRIS. Imagine you had a crystal ball that ...