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Trapped volcanic gases – WSU research gives insight into mass extinction
PULLMAN, Wash. – A Washington State University researcher’s analysis of gases trapped in microscopic, 250 million-year-old crystals is adding new insights to a theory that volcanic activity led to the world’s largest known extinction. Michael Rowe, a volcanic geochemist and research associate in the School of the Environment, was part of a study that found […]
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East Java. Kawah Ijen: Between potential & threat
EXCERPT: After three major eruptions 3,500 years ago that created a caldera measuring 22 by 25 kilometers, the Ijen volcano rose to world fame for its crater lake with the most acidic water in the globe. Looming behind the natural beauty and geothermal energy potential of the Ijen crater or Kawah Ijen, however, is a […]
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Enduring fluoride health hazard for the Vesuvius area population: the case of AD 79 Herculaneum.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The study of ancient skeletal pathologies can be adopted as a key tool in assessing and tracing several diseases from past to present times. Skeletal fluorosis, a chronic metabolic bone and joint disease causing excessive ossification and joint ankylosis, has been only rarely considered in differential diagnoses of palaeopathological lesions. Even today its […]
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High fluoride soil levels from 2010 volcanic eruption
At last year’s EGU meeting several late-breaking sessions covered Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which was still erupting. This year there was plenty of time to schedule sessions well in advance and, when it came to ash, more of on emphasis on its effects on the ground rather than the consequences of airborne ash for aircraft safety. […]
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7 quakes recorded at Taal Volcano
At least seven volcanic quakes were recorded around restive Taal Volcano in Batangas in the last 24 hours, state volcanologists said Friday. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology also noted weak steaming activity even as it said Alert Level 1 stays. “Alert Level 1 is still enforced over Taal Volcano. This means that a […]
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ECUADOR: Farming in the Shadow of the Volcano
QUITO, Dec 17 2010 (IPS) – On a clear day, hundreds of families pull over in their cars and snap pictures of the column of smoke spewing out of the Tungurahua volcano in central Ecuador. But people living in towns and villages near the volcano, which has destroyed their way of life by coating their […]
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Massive Volcanism May Have Caused Biggest Extinction Ever
The greatest extinction in the history of life may have been caused, in part, by ozone-depleting gases spewed in a massive volcanic eruption, a new study suggests. Geologists have found surprisingly high amounts of the elements fluorine and chlorine in Siberian lavas dating back 250 million years — when about 90 percent of marine species […]
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The Ash Comes Down Like a Blessing to Some
REYKJAVIC, Jul 8, 2010 (IPS) – “It’s unbelievable, the eruption has had a very good effect on the grass,” says farmer Finnur Tryggvason in Raudafell, just beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that erupted in April and continued till late May. The ash is thought to keep the soil warm, hence enhancing growth. “It’s like putting fertilizer […]
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Welsh scientists probe impact on livestock of Iceland’s volcanic ash
SCIENTISTS are gathering grass and air samples on Snowdon to see how April’s volcano eruption in Iceland has left its mark on the Welsh environment. The Countryside Council for Wales is involved in a UK-wide Defra project to assess the eruption’s long-term impact on livestock. High mortality rates among Iceland’s livestock are thought to have […]
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Wales: Snowdon centre to study effects of ash cloud
SCIENTISTS are to research the effects of the Icelandic ash cloud on Wales’ environment. The ash cloud caused air travel chaos for millions of passengers when the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in April. Although it is no longer emitting ash, researchers from the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) are to investigate how the volcano has affected […]
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