First up on our list of oldest fossils ever found are the microfossils of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt. The rock sequence ...

Despite Hawaii's volcano erupting continuously for a month, Guatemala's recent volcano eruption was much more deadly, ... These broad, low angle volcanoes erupt mafic lava with low viscosity, ...

This study produced a timeline of volcanic activity in Henrys Fork Caldera and related it to volcanic eruptions linked to Yellowstone’s most recent caldera-forming cycle, the paper says. The new ...

The ongoing eruption of Kilauea in Hawaii has brought volcano jargon to the surface, like an effusion of mafic (that’s low-silica, oozing magma to you).

Geochemist and associate professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering Philipp Ruprecht has been studying the Puyehue Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile for the past six years. How ...

In fact, it worked in temperatures up to 1,652 °F (900 °C), the temperature of erupting mafic volcano lava – the hottest type of lava on Earth.

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, resides a belt of volcanic rock that displays a blend of dark and light ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been fiercely erupting for well over a month. Now, residents are finding little green gems that have fallen out of the sky during Kilauea's eruption.