Tag: plate tectonics
Volcanic eruption: Iceland has to prepare for many small eruptions
interview As of: January 15, 2024 7:15 p.m The lava reached the first houses in the coastal town of Grindavik and set them on fire. Scientist Troll hopes that the…
“We must learn to think in geological time scales” – knowledge
SZ: Ms. Gürer, you spent several summers in the mountains of central and eastern Anatolia to research the tectonic history there. How does the earthquake of February 6 fit into…
Geology: How plate tectonics affects climate
New ocean floor forms much more slowly today than it did 15 million years ago. What this could be related to – and what that means for global warming. source…
Europe: It started with a supervolcano – Knowledge
The primordial event that gave Europe its current form could have happened 105 million years ago below Madagascar. From the planet’s interior, hot rocky material then rose through the mantle…