T3

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If peering into a rumbling crater or squeezing down a lava tube is your idea of the perfect holiday, don’t make the mistake of assuming you’ll need a long haul flight. Take Iceland, where you’ll find national parks such as Vatnajökull, home to the vo

Family Tree UK

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Fisk, Harold. (1944). Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River. Conducted for the Mississippi River Commission, Vicksburg, MS. (maps available for viewing online at http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?fi

Italia magazine

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Hearing Sicilians refer to “her” as “Mamma Etna” you’d be forgiven for assuming that this was a fond reference to a local lady. And to some people Mamma Etna is indeed a living, breathing companion, overseeing – and at times interfering with – life o

The Guardian

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When his phone rang at 3.22am last Wednesday, 50-year-old Giuseppe Salerno, the head of volcanologists at Catania’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), was already up after a thundering rumble had awoken many of the city’s inhabi

MOTHER EARTH NEWS

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Sharon Danks of Green Schoolyards America offers ideas for several simple outdoor school projects, one of which involves igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks that elementary students might study in a geology class. “In an indoor lab, students

Australian Geographic

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WHEN SUPERHEATED water is trapped in the pores of rocks, a number of triggers – heat, rising gas, tremors, changes in crater lake levels – can cause it to blow. Water flashes to steam, expanding up to 1700 times its original volume, with enough energ

Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist

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JUST WHEN YOU THINK MOTHER EARTH HAS nothing more to reveal, she surprises the heck out of you. One of the newest surprises on the market is an opalized petrified wood from west Java. It may be the only deposit of its type in the world. The stone was

Power & Motoryacht

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Pompeii. Krakatoa. Mount St. Helens. Volcanoes are generally associated with the death and destruction that follows when they blow their tops. Or inconvenience, as when the ash plume from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull led to a weeks-long, worldwide air

How It Works

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Looking like they’ve been plucked from the pages of a Dr Seuss book, these multicoloured mountains are far from fiction, found in China’s Zhangye Danxia National Park. The rock that makes up this colourful array is predominantly sandstone and siltsto

Wheels

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BRAD LEIGH, MALVERN, VIC “I remember watching a video where a guy in the UK had miked up an R8 and was giving it a serve. I knew right then I wanted one. This particular car was built while the Icelandic volcano was erupting in 2010 and the build was

Muse

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Erin Argyilan of Indiana University is known for her lively teaching style and leading some of the best geology field trips in the Chicagoland area. She takes people of all ages on interactive tours that lead to dune climbing, animal identifying, and

Hawaii Fishing News

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August in Kona means really big fish – really near shore! The biggest of the Hawai‘i volcanoes are here, standing shoulder-to-shoulder. Hawai‘i’s volcanologists strain to describe the gigantic plume of superheated magma rising from the center of the

Motorcycle Mojo Magazine

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Because of its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, mountains and rivers, Squamish is known as an adventurer lover’s four-season paradise. The area offers rock climbing, mountain biking, kite and wind surfing, hiking, trail riding (of course) and so much

The Atlantic

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Janine Krippner was the first to notice something amiss with the volcano. A volcanologist at the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program, Krippner was doing a routine fact-check in the program’s volcano registry, scrolling through photos o

Pick Me Up Special

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Create your own volcanic eruption with Hobbycraft’s clay volcano. A great project to teach kids whilst they get crafty! For more craft ideas visit: blog.hobbycraft.co.uk 2 packs of air-drying clayLarge square cake boardOrange, red and black acry

Backpacker

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Subscriber Exclusive KURIL ISLANDS, RUSSIA There are no official trails to the peaks of this volcanic island, but adventurous hikers can snag this view from the caldera’s rim. Chris Burkard, an award-winning outdoor photographer and explorer from Pis

NPR

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Evacuations from a danger zone around Taal Volcano continued Thursday, with some 57,000 people living in the hardest-hit province having left their homes since Sunday's eruption.

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For the first collection in its latest range, New Volumes, Artedomus has assembled eight prominent Australian designers and makers led by creative director Thomas Coward, to produce a variety of different pieces made from just one material: Elba. Co

National Geographic Traveller (UK)

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The wind kisses my face as we fly out of the city. Anxiously, I cling to the back of the stranger in whose hands I’ve so perilously placed my life. The straps of my helmet whirl about my face, adding to my general sense of disorientation. With agilit

Los Angeles Times

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SAN FRANCISCO - Lassen Peak had been rumbling for days. Glowing hot rocks bounded down the slopes. Lava was welling up into a freshly created crater. Then, on this day 103 years ago, it exploded in a way California would never forget. It created a gi

NPR

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Mount Agung began spewing ash last week, but over the weekend authorities raised the alert level for a possible larger eruption and expanded a danger zone around the base of the volcano.

TV Guide Magazine

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Wednesday, March 4, 8/7c, ABC High-wire artist Nik Wallenda is at it again. The 41-year-old daredevil—holder of 11 acrobatics-related Guinness World Records—is undertaking a live stunt even more daring than his 25-story walk over New York City’s Time

T3 India

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If peering into a rumbling crater or squeezing down a lava tube is your idea of the perfect holiday, don’t make the mistake of assuming you’ll need a long haul flight. Take Iceland, where you’ll find national parks such as Vatnajökull, home to the vo

NPR

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Experts predict the volcano eruption on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent will last for days, even weeks. Officials urge people to seek safety as rescuers search for those who haven't evacuated.

You South Africa

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Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 woolly mammoths on a building site north of Mexico City. They say there are so many bones it will be impossible to dig up all of them. The discovery was made when construction started on converting a di

NPR

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Authorities raised Mount Mayon's alert level to 4 out of a possible 5, indicating "intense unrest" and the possibility of a particularly violent, hazardous eruption within days.

Popular Science

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Satellite data from Okmuk volcano in Alaska shows how much the ground was deformed after an eruption. Courtesy of the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre). Forecasting the weather is hard enough—just ask any meteorologist. But imagine how diff

You South Africa

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1962 The year South-dale, South Africa’s first shopping mall, was built near Gold Reef City in Johannesburg. There are now more than 2 000 shopping malls in the country, but a number of them are under stress due to the Covid-19 pandemic. People have

NPR

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Lava from the Kileaua volcano is pouring into the Pacific Ocean, generating a plume of "laze" — hydrochloric acid and steam with fine glass particles — into the air.

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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The eruption in 2014 of an underwater volcano in the South Pacific gave birth to the island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, one of the world’s newest islands. And while scientists expected it to be washed away within months, today, it is reported to be