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• VolcanoWatch Weekly [25 Nov 2009]

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 137
  VOW: to be announced…SI / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report(18 November – 24 November 2009)New activity/Unrest: Galeras, ColombiaSarychev Peak, Matua IslandVolcano News (Source: GVP)An explosive eruption from  detected by the seismic network on 20 November prompted INGEOMINAS to raise the Alert Level. ...
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• Mars may have once hosted a body of water the size of Lake Michigan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 26 (ANI): Scientists have found a telltale “bathtub ring” of minerals inside an ancient Martian impact crater, which has led them to suggest that Mars may have once hosted a body of water roughly the size of Lake Michigan.According to a report in National Geographic News, the find means that ...
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• the sorry campgrounds of Hawaii

  
  besthike.com blog — Authority: 415
  Over the past 3 years I’ve checked out or tented most of the official campgrounds on Kauai and Maui . Despite being an outdoor tropical paradise, the campground situation on those 2 islands is a mess . Your choices include National Campgrounds, State Campgrounds, County Campgrounds and a few private ...
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• Dr Boris Behncke Q&A at Eruptions

  
  The Volcanism Blog — Authority: 428
  If you want to know about the volcanoes of Italy, Dr Boris Behncke of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia is your man. Dr Behncke features in Erik Klemetti’s second volcanologist Q&A over at the Eruptions blog, and as you might expect the result is a volcanological feast. Highly recommended – ...
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• Lava Tubes on the Moon!

  
  The Martian Chronicles — Authority: 124
  Ever wonder how astronauts on the moon are going to avoid deadly space radiation? One option is to live in caves, and luckily the Kaguya team has found one! Read more about it in my article over at Universe Today.Posted in Caves, Geology, Humans in Space, The Moon, Volcanoes [...]
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• USGS Webcam Catches Minor Eruption of Kilauea Volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 593
  This Quicktime movie shows a small explosive event at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in the Halema`uma`u vent at 9:20 a.m Saturday. The explosion was immediately preceded by a portion of the vent rim collapsing into the vent cavity. read more
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• Toba eruption deforested India

  
  The Volcanism Blog — Authority: 428
  The Toba eruption of ~73000 years ago is perennially fascinating: the world’s largest known Quaternary eruption, this event registered VEI=8 and had a global climatic impact that may have caused the near-extinction of humanity by creating a ‘population bottleneck’ (or perhaps not ). The scientist behind ...
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• Savage Islands, Atlantic Ocean Seen from the ISS

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 617
  The Savage Islands, or Ilhas Selvagens in Portuguese, are a small archipelago in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean between the archipelago of Madeira to the north and the Canary Islands to the south. Like these other island groups, the Savage Islands are thought to have been produced by volcanism related to a mantle ...
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• Lighting up the night sky in Costa Rica

  
  Vacation + Travel Blog Find your Holiday! — Authority: 148
  Costa Rica like the rest of its neighboring countries in Central America is known for their beautiful people (judging from the number of winning beauty queens from the region), pristine white sandy beaches, rainforest and last but not least, the awesome volcanoes.The volcanoes have been in existence since the dawn of ...
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• Volcanic origin for nickel ore deposits

  
  The Volcanism Blog — Authority: 428
  Some 10% of the world’s nickel production comes from iron-nickel sulphide (or, if you prefer, sulfide) deposits laid down on seafloors between 2.5 and 3 billion years ago and found in those interesting ultramafic volcanic rocks called komatiites . How these deposits came to be there, however, has always been ...
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• Volcanoes affect life on earth

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 137
  Volcano Watch: Acting locally causes effects globally(Volcano Watch is a weekly article written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, HVO.)A visit to Kilauea can bring a sense of awe and appreciation for the earth’s volcanoes. Over the past weeks, the east rift eruption has ...
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• 37 Volcanoes in 10 Days: Official Time 8 Days & 11 Hours

  
  Never Stop Exploring — Authority: 119
  (In English and Espanol) ENGLISH THE ACOMPLISHMENT Friday 20th of November; rarely in life something goes exactly according to planed; this was exactly the case, things went better than planed. The athletes finished the Challenge in 8 days and 11 hours. Willie Benegas said “If we were to do it ...
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• The End is Near! 2012 and the Work that Remains

  
  North Atlantic Books Blog — Authority: 118
  Its opening weekend, the movie 2012 topped the box office charts by pulling in $65 million. In the film, Jackson Curtis and his family attempt to survive the catastrophic events taking place all around the world–from earthquakes in California, to erupting volcanoes in Yellowstone, to overwhelming tsunamis in ...
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• Another plane mishap in Africa. This time lava is the problem

  
  Gadling — Authority: 708
  Filed under: Africa , Congo , Zimbabwe , Airports , News If youve ever seen a lava flow, you know that once the stuff cools and hardens, its hard to move. In the Congo, this has created a big problem at the airport in Goma. Back in 2002, when the Nyiragongo Volcano erupted, lava flowed onto the runway, ...
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• Volcanoes of the Deep Sea opens Friday at Carnegie

  
  Big Movie Zone Blog — Authority: 142
  2003’s Volcanoes of the Deep Sea opens tomorrow in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Science Center’s Omnimax Theater. Directed by Stephen Low, the film follows a team of scientists as they dive to research mysterious hydrothermal vents on the mid-ocean ridge. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette offers this preview: ...
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• 37 Volcanoes in 10 Days: Near the Finish Line

  
  Never Stop Exploring — Authority: 119
  (In English and Espanol) IN ENGLISH Thursday November 19th; the athletes have reached the top of 33 volcanoes and are hoping to finish the Challenge today, sometime in the afternoon. Right now they are near the top of the Ixtepeque volcano (34), in the Eastern region of the country. After this they will ...
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• VolcanoWatch Weekly [18 Nov 2009]

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 137
  VOW: MayonMayon volcano spews smoke and ash for the second time in a day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 at Legazpi, Albay province, about 340 kilometers southeast of Manila, Philippines. AP Photo/Nelson Salting. Image may be subject to copyright.Related News and Posts:Mayon’s crater glow grows more intense Strong ...
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• Finding Magma Systems in African Rift

  
  Geology News — Authority: 516
  For the past 10 years, satellite images have been used to study active magma systems in the East African Rift. Activity has been recorded at 4 Kenyan volcanoes: Paka, Longonot, Menengai, and Suswa.Related: East Africa’s Great Rift Valley: A Complex Rift System.
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• 37 Volcanoes in 10 Days: Day 8 - 29 Tamed & 8 Left

  
  Never Stop Exploring — Authority: 119
  (In English and Espanol) IN ENGLISH DAY 8: The athletes are hurting; their feet have blisters, their knees and shins scraped and torn because of all the vegetation and rock that has brushed against them. Their metal sharpness is getting weaker and the physical strengths gauge is near empty. We had a chance ...
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• DM me if you want to buy the TV rights...

  
  amalah . com — Authority: 121
  Oh my God! You guys! In between all the craziness of...uh...sleeping and eating and taking like, THREE WHOLE SHOWERS IN FIVE DAYS, I completely forgot to tell you about the most exciting thing to happen to me ever in my whole life:   AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ...
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