Azerbaijan, located between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, is home to hundreds of active mud volcanoes. Locally known as “yanardagh”, which means “burning mountain”, these volcanoes regularly expel mud, water, gases, and flames, creating a spectacular landscape. Mud volcanoes exist on almost every continent. It is estimated that Azerbaijan has around 400 mud […]
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Easter Island findings change everything we know about the Earth’s mantle and how it moves beneath the crust
Traditionally, textbooks have described the mantle as a viscous, well-mixed layer that shifts along with tectonic plates, much like a conveyor belt. This theory has been a cornerstone of geology for nearly a century but has been notoriously difficult to prove. Now, a study by geologists from Cuba, Colombia, and the Netherlands is challenging that […]
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The Largest Underwater Volcanic Eruption in History, 7300 Years Ago in Japan, Created a Caldera the Size of a Capital City
A team of geoscientists from Kobe University recently uncovered evidence that a massive volcanic eruption that took place 7,300 years ago in southern Japan was the largest eruption to occur on Earth within the past 11,700 years. Their findings shed new light on mega-eruption dynamics and the influential role volcanoes have played in Earth’s climate […]
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Evidence of Ancient Volcanic Eruption Six Times Larger than the One that Caused the Fall of the Minoan Civilization Found on Santorini
An international expedition led by Dr. Steffen Kutterolf of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has found evidence of one of the largest eruptions ever recorded in southern Aegean Arc of Greece. The expedition was conducted aboard the JOIDES Resolution research vessel as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The Greek island […]
