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• Drilling Into a Stirring Volcano Is (Probably) Safe

  
  80beats — Authority: 654
  A super-colossal volcanic eruption rocked Italy 39,000 years ago, and troubling signs at the site, now known as Campi Flegrei, have many scientists wondering when the next big one will hit. To probe the issue, so to speak, the Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project will drill nearly 2.5 miles down into the ...
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• Top 7 adventure activities near Arenal, Costa Rica

  
  Gadling — Authority: 686
  Filed under: Climbing , Hiking , Costa Rica , Ecotourism , Budget Travel , Central America For travelers in search of a little adrenaline, the Arenal region of Costa Rica serves up adventure any way you like it. The area around the Arenal volcano in Costa Rica, about 80 miles north of San Jose in the ...
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• Cusack: Disaster movies bring people together

  
  D210 TV | Dallas Texas | Entertainment | Celebrity News and Events — Authority: 151
  John Cusack likes the way disaster movies bring people together. The ‘2012′ star said he thinks people bond over films where the world nearly ends because they realise that everybody is fundamentally the same. He said: “Stories about the apocalypse imagine a time when there’s a kind of an event that makes ...
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• France Auvergne Auvergne is situated on the south central

  
  hotcrew57.com — Authority: 159
  France Auvergne Auvergne is situated on the south central region of France. It was named after the Counts of Auvergne who ruled for several years. There are several volcanoes in this region. Chaine des Puys is a range of volcanoes found in Auvergne. This includes several cones, lava domes, and explosion craters. You ...
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• The Rainy Season is Officially Over!

  
  AntiguaDailyPhoto.Com — Authority: 469
  The 2009 r ainy season that officially began on April 24 is now over. Nevertheless, before the end, we received 1″ (over 25 mm) of rain between Fridays and Saturday. These last rains were caused by the Hurricane Ida . Hurricane is one of the few Mayan words that have made it into the global scene. In Maya ...
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• Wide Angle: Voyage to the Earths Core

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 736
  Despite being Earths most inaccessible place, the core is starting to give up deep, hot, powerful secrets.
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• Interview: Core Issues

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 736
  Its thousands of miles underground, beyond our reach. But Earths core is starting to give up its powerful secrets.
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• 10 Nice Things About a Soft Core Planet

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 736
  An audio-visual tour of 10 great things about living on our soft-core planet with innards as hot as the Sun.
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• A new discovery in the Hawaiian web of life

  
  Raising Islands--Hawai'i science and environment — Authority: 110
  The Hawaiian islands are connected, not only geologically, but with an intricate web of life. This fact has been reestablished in the past week with the announcement of the discovery of a series of closely related moths on three islands of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands—moths that have been evolving in the ...
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• Oregon Geology Field Trip Guides

  
  Geology News — Authority: 531
  The Fall 2009 issue of Oregon Geology features field trip guides and information about the new state geologic map…* Field trip guide to the middle Eocene Wildcat Mountain caldera, Ochoco National Forest, Crook County, Oregon* Field trip guide to the Oligocene Crooked River caldera: Central Oregon’s supervolcano, ...
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• VolcanoWatch Weekly [6 Nov 2009]

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 433
  VOW: KilaueaClick image to enlarge. [Top] Activity at the west Waikupanaha ocean entry, where lava reached the ocean this past weekend, continues. The entry spans about 200 yards, with many small lava streams entering the water. [Above] On the east margin of the entry, lobes were advancing over a small black sand ...
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• Lava Flows of the Kilauea East Rift Zone

  
  Geology News — Authority: 531
  NASA’s Earth Observatory has released a satellite image of lava flows in Kilauea Volcano’s East Rift Zone. The image shows many generations of flows and the trace of craters that mark the center of the rift zone.
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• The rifting of Africa

  
  Eruptions — Authority: 512
  Lava flows from the 2005 Mando Hararo eruption in Ethiopia. Alright, I had been attempting to ignore this story because it was, well, a little uninteresting at first, but it apparently has legs so I will tackle it. Slashdot has a post proclaiming : Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two, ...
  6 days ago

• Is Your Ruby Real?

  
  ABC News: Health — Authority: 871
  Elisabeth Leamy dissects the difference between composites and genuine rubies.
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• A Crack Opens in the Ethiopian Landscape, Preparing the Way for a New Sea

  
  80beats — Authority: 654
  In 2005, the earth cracked open in Ethiopia. Two volcanic eruptions shook the desert, and a 35-mile-long rift opened in the land, measuring 20 feet wide in some places. Now a new study adds weight to the argument that the opening of this crack marks the first step in the formation of a new sea that may eventually ...
  1 week ago

• El Misti Volcano

  
  Geology News — Authority: 531
  The city center of Arequipa, Peru is only 11 miles away from the summit of El Misti. Arequipa has nearly 1 million residents and much of the building stone for Arequipa was quarried from pyroclastic flow deposits produced by El Misti.
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• Beginnings of New Ocean in Ethiopia

  
  Geology News — Authority: 531
  A large rift in Ethiopia’s Afar desert may be the beginnings of a new ocean. An eruption from the Dabbahu volcano triggered the rift’s formation, when the ground split about 6 meters (20 feet) in the course of a few days.Related: East Africa’s Great Rift Valley: A Complex Rift System
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• Giant crack in Africa will create new ocean

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 760
  It’s likely that a 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will give way to a new ocean, say researchers. The crack, which began to surface in 2005, is 20 feet wide in some spots and appeared over days. In a statement today, researchers explained why they believe the crack will create a new ocean in Africa: Using ...
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• African Desert Rift Confirmed As New Ocean In The Making

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  New research confirms that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at the bottom of the world’s oceans, and the rift is indeed likely the beginning of a new sea.In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some ...
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• Casablanca Seamount exploration reveals underwater volcano teeming with life

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  London, November 3 (ANI): In a new exploration mission of the Casablanca Seamount, scientists have found an underwater volcano teeming with life.The Casablanca Seamount lies 300 miles (480km) west of Morocco, at the eastern edge of a chain of undersea volcanoes that formed the Canary Islands and was thought to have ...
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