Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Mike Poland, geophysicist with the ...
It was a hot and humid summer day in the Caribbean and the wind was up. Just moments after Winair’s de Havilland Twin-Otter bumpily took off from St. Maarten, the tiny island of Saba, just a ...
The world’s largest volcanic eruption—La Garita Caldera—occurred in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains about 28 million years ago. A fantasyland of pinnacles and spires in southwestern Colorado’s Wheeler ...
NPCA’s traveling park lover ventures into the northern California desert to Lava Beds National Monument and discovers a history of Indian wars and a picturesque landscape of lava tubes far off the ...
In the middle of a vast lava plain in the heart of southern Idaho, a charcoal-colored cinder cone rises several hundred feet above the surrounding landscape — a wasteland so hostile that even Native ...
The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...
So, how did this volcanic landscape come to be? “In the Cascades, broadly, we’re located along a subduction zone,” explained United States Geological Survey (USGS) Research Geologist Emily Johnson.
I’m not sure what takes my breath away first: the low oxygen, or the rugged, alien landscape that spreads out majestically below my feet. We are standing on the 4200-metre-high summit of Mauna Kea, a ...
We all know Mordor, the volcano-peppered wasteland where Sauron dwells in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, is a fantasy land, right? … Right? Don’t be so sure. As fortune would have it, geologists have ...
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