A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...

Transcript. Volcanic Rock Helps Predict Speed of Future Lava Flow. Published: November 6, 2018. Olivier Namur: We know that the composition of this volcano are low in silica, very low, below 40 ...

You pronounce her name Vahl-bohn-uh Mehmeh-tee, not Val-bone Mem-meeti. It’s from Italian, by way of Albania. “I’ve been `Vali’ since kindergarten, so you can call me that,&… ...

The composition of the gases, rocks, and melted rocks known as lava that come out of a volcano depend on where the volcano is located. Earth’s top layer is broken into two kinds of plates, continental ...

Bill Whitaker was there as lava flowed from a volcano in Iceland in 2021, covering the landscape in molten rock. He returned to see what scientists have learned from the eruption.

Update 6/15/18 at 4:30 p.m. EST: Per the USGS: University of Hawaii at Hilo scientists, who are conducting chemical analysis of the lava, said the olivine they're seeing in eruptive products does ...