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• Curtain eruptions from enceladus' south-polar terrain

  Authors:Joseph N. Spitale, Terry A. Hurford, Alyssa R. Rhoden, Emily E. Berkson, and Symeon S. PlattsFrom:Nature (Vol. 521, Issue 7550) Peer-Reviewed

  May 7, 20152,847 words Report 1420LObservations of the south pole of the Saturnian moon Enceladus revealed large rifts in the south-polar terrain, informally called 'tiger stripes', named Alexandria, Baghdad, Cairo and Damascus Sulci. These fractures...

• Glowing avalanches: new research on volcanic density currents

  Authors:Greg A. Valentine and Richard V. FisherFrom:Science (Vol. 259, Issue 5098) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 19, 19932,342 words Article Volcanic density currents are denser-than-air mixtures of vapor and volcanic particles that flow down the sides of a volcano during an eruption. Researchers are re-examining the mobility and deposits of volcanic gravity...

• Terminal cretaceous environmental events

  Authors:Charles B. Officer and Charles L. DrakeFrom:Science (Vol. 227) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 8, 19856,242 words Article Terminal Cretaceous Environmental Events Although there is general agreement that the end of Cretaceous time is marked by one of the most significant faunal and floral transitions in the Phanerozoic record, there is...

• Flood basalts and hot-spot tracks: plume heads and tails

  Authors:Mark A. Richards, Robert A. Duncan, and Vincent E. CourtillotFrom:Science (Vol. 246, Issue 4926) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 6, 19894,422 words Article Flood Basalts and Hot-Spot Tracks: Plume Heads and Tails CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALTS occur worldwide (Fig. 1), and because of their wide age distribution and enormous volume, they are of fundamental importance in the...

• Double flood basalts and plume head separation at the 660-kilometer discontinuity

  Authors:David Bercovici and John MahoneyFrom:Science (Vol. 266, Issue 5189) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 25, 19943,038 words Article Several of the world's flood basalt provinces display two distinct times of major eruptions separated by between 20 million and 90 million years. These double flood basalts may occur because a starting mantle plume head...

• A volcanically triggered regime shift in the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean as a possible origin of the Little Ice Age

  Authors:C. F. Schleussner and G. FeulnerFrom:Climate of the Past (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  June 25, 201326 words Brief article Byline: C. F. Schleussner, G. Feulner To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• On recent (2008-2012) stratospheric aerosols observed by lidar over Japan

  Authors:O. Uchino, T. Sakai, T. Nagai, K. Nakamae, I. Morino, K. Arai, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 12, Issue 24) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 17, 201245 words Brief article Byline: O. Uchino, T. Sakai, T. Nagai, K. Nakamae, I. Morino, K. Arai, H. Okumura, S. Takubo, T. Kawasaki, Y. Mano, T. Matsunaga, T. Yokota To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this...

• Air pollution by hydrothermal volcanism and human pulmonary function

  Authors:Diana Linhares, Patricia Ventura Garcia, Fatima Viveiros, Teresa Ferreira, and Armindo dos Santos RodriguesFrom:BioMed Research InternationalPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20155,603 words Report 1560LThe aim of this study was to assess whether chronic exposure to volcanogenic air pollution by hydrothermal soil diffuse degassing is associated with respiratory defects in humans. This study was carried in the...

• Surface temperature response to the major volcanic eruptions in multiple reanalysis data sets.

  Authors:Masatomo Fujiwara, Patrick Martineau, and Jonathon S. WrightFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 10, 2020381 words Brief article The global response of air temperature at 2 m above the surface to the eruptions of Mount Agung in March 1963, El Chichón in April 1982, and Mount Pinatubo in June 1991 is investigated using 11 global atmospheric...

• Boninite and boninite-series volcanics in northern Zambales ophiolite: doubly vergent subduction initiation along Philippine Sea plate margins

  Authors:Americus Perez, Susumu Umino, Graciano P. Yumul Jr., and Osamu IshizukaFrom:Solid Earth (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  June 5, 2018306 words Author abstract, Bri... A key component of subduction initiation rock suites is boninite, a high-magnesium andesite that is uniquely predominant in western Pacific forearc terranes and in select Tethyan ophiolites such as Oman and Troodos. We...

• Climate impact of volcanic eruptions: the sensitivity to eruption season and latitude in MPI-ESM ensemble experiments.

  Authors:Zhihong Zhuo, Ingo Kirchner, Stephan Pfahl, and Ulrich CubaschFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 17) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 9, 2021350 words Brief article Explosive volcanic eruptions influence near-surface temperature and precipitation especially in the monsoon regions, but the impact varies with different eruption seasons and latitudes. To study this variability, two...

• A Late Silurian (Pridolian) age for the Eastport Formation, Maine: a review of the fossil, stratigraphic, and radiometric-age data

  Author:Lisa Churchill-DicksonFrom:Atlantic Geology (Vol. 40, Issue 2-3) Peer-Reviewed

  July-November 20043,845 words Article ABSTRACT The Eastport Formation is part of a larger volcaniclastic sequence (the Coastal Volcanic Belt) that extends from Massachusetts, USA, into New Brunswick, Canada. It represents a portion of Avalonia that was...

• Io's escape

  Author:Gerald SchubertFrom:Nature (Vol. 459, Issue 7249) Peer-Reviewed

  June 18, 20091,391 words Report 1530LAccording to the latest study, our witnessing of the volcanic splendour of Jupiter's moon Io might just be a lucky circumstance. The odds are that the satellite will become quiescent on its escape from orbital custody....

• A third way to rift continents

  Author:W. Roger BuckFrom:Nature (Vol. 499, Issue 7457) Peer-Reviewed

  July 11, 20131,132 words Report 1420LRifting of continents is usually explained by one of two mechanisms based on effects that originate far from the zone of rifting. Laboratory experiments show that this geodynamic process can also be caused by local...

• Volcanoes can muddle the greenhouse

  Author:Richard A. KerrFrom:Science (Vol. 245, Issue 4914) Peer-Reviewed

  July 14, 19891,378 words Article Volcanoes Can Muddle the Greenhouse AS SCIENTISTS AND POLITICIANS anxiously eye signs of global greenhouse warming, climatologists are finding the best evidence yet that a massive volcanic eruption can temporarily bring...

• Consequences of Siberian traps volcanism. (Letters)

  Author:Daniel DorritieFrom:Science (Vol. 297, Issue 5588) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 13, 2002677 words Brief article M. K. REICHOW ET AL. ("[sup.40]AR/[sup.39]AR DATES from the West Siberian Basin: Siberian flood basalt province doubled," Reports, 7 June, p. 1846) report that the areal extent and volume of the Siberian Traps volcanism...

• Volcano impacts on climate and biogeochemistry in a coupled carbon-climate model

  Authors:D. Rothenberg, N. Mahowald, K. Lindsay, S. C. Doney, J. K. Moore, and P. ThorntonFrom:Earth System Dynamics (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 19, 201235 words Brief article Byline: D. Rothenberg, N. Mahowald, K. Lindsay, S. C. Doney, J. K. Moore, P. Thornton To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Volcanic SO.sub.2 fluxes derived from satellite data: a survey using OMI, GOME-2, IASI and MODIS

  Authors:N. Theys, R. Campion, L. Clarisse, H. Brenot, J. van Gent, B. Dils, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 13, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20, 201351 words Brief article Byline: N. Theys, R. Campion, L. Clarisse, H. Brenot, J. van Gent, B. Dils, S. Corradini, L. Merucci, P.-F. Coheur, M. Van Roozendael, D. Hurtmans, C. Clerbaux, S. Tait, F. Ferrucci To access, purchase, authenticate,...

• Burst conditions of explosive volcanic eruptions recorded on microbarographs

  Authors:Bernard A. Choet and Meghan M. MorrisseyFrom:Science (Vol. 275, Issue 5304) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 28, 19972,327 words Article Explosive volcanic eruptions generate pressure disturbances in the atmosphere that propagate away either as acoustic or as shock waves, depending on the explosivity of the eruption. Both types of waves are recorded on...

• Magma mixing and the generation of isotopically juvenile silicic magma at Yellowstone caldera inferred from coupling [sup.238]U-[sup.230]Th ages with trace elements and Hf and O isotopes in zircon and Pb isotopes in sanidine

  Authors:Mark E. Stelten, Kari M. Cooper, Jorge A. Vazquez, Mary R. Reid, Gry H. Barfod, Josh Wimpenny, et al.From:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 166, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 201311,940 words Article 1680LThe nature of compositional heterogeneity within large silicic magma bodies has important implications for how silicic reservoirs are assembled and evolve through time. We examine compositional heterogeneity in the...