A new study shows the importance of large reservoirs in creating Earth’s most powerful volcanic eruptions and explains why they are so rare.
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Deep magma reservoirs are key to volcanic super-eruptions!
June 9th, 2017 
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No Comments »Gondwanagaricites magnificus:The oldest fossil mushroom
June 8th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Roughly 115 million years ago, when the ancient supercontinent Gondwana was breaking apart, a mushroom fell into a river and began an improbable journey. Its ultimate fate as a mineralized fossil preserved in limestone in northeast Brazil makes it a scientific wonder, scientists report in the journal PLOS […]
Why rocks flow slowly in Earth’s middle mantle
June 6th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For decades, researchers have studied the interior of the Earth using seismic waves from earthquakes. Now a recent study, led by Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration Associate Professor Dan Shim, has re-created in the laboratory the conditions found deep in the Earth, and used […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: flow, Mantle, Riffin T Sajeev, rock, Rocks, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Antarctic ice rift close to calving, after growing 17km in 6 days, latest data from ice shelf shows
June 5th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica has grown by 17km in the last few days and is now only 13km from the ice front, indicating that calving of an iceberg is probably very close, Swansea University researchers revealed after studying the latest satellite data. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: antarctic, ice, ice shelf, Riffin T Sajeev, rift, Russel T Sajeev, shelf, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Extreme geothermal activity discovered beneath New Zealand’s Southern Alps
June 3rd, 2017 Riffin Unusually high temperatures, greater than 100°C, have been found close to Earth’s surface in New Zealand – a phenomenon typically only seen in volcanic areas such as Iceland or Yellowstone, USA.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: alps, geothermal, high temperatures, new zealand, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Why the Sumatra earthquake was so severe…..
June 2nd, 2017 Riffin An international team of scientists has found evidence suggesting the dehydration of minerals deep below the ocean floor influenced the severity of the Sumatra earthquake, which took place on Dec. 26, 2004.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: deadly, Earthquake, Ocean, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, severe, subduction, sumatra, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Hard rocks from Himalaya raise flood risk for millions
June 1st, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have shown how earthquakes and storms in the Himalaya can increase the impact of deadly floods in one of Earth’s most densely populated areas. Large volumes of hard rock dumped into rivers by landslides can increase flood risk up to hundreds of kilometres downstream, potentially affecting millions […]
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