“From February 17 to 19, a severe storm blasted the Lebanese coast with 100-kilometer (60-mile) winds and dropped as much as 2 meters (7 feet) of snow on parts of the country! Temperatures dropped to near freezing along the coast, while snowplows struggled to clear the main roadway between Beirut and Damascus.” Quoted from the [...] […]

 

For the past twenty years the ground has been rising at a rate of about 1/2 inch per year at Bolivia’s Uturuncu Volcano. Uturuncu has the potential of producing enormous eruptions but experts do not believe that the current inflation is a warning signal. […]

 

In northern China, researchers have found a fossil coal swamp that was quickly buried and preserved by a fall of volcanic ash approximately 300 million years ago. Related: How does coal form? | Coal through a microscope. […]

 

“GJ 1214b is like no planet we know of [...] a huge fraction of its mass is made up of water.” […]

 

“A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth’s forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how their heights influence wildlife habitats within them, while also helping them quantify the carbon stored in Earth’s vegetation.” Quoted from the NASA press [...] […]

 

 

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Pictures of Current Kilauea Surface Flow at HVO Website

Here at Kilauea Talk we like to think about the continuing eruption of Kilauea and imagine the long-term effects on the shape and size of Kilauea such an extended eruption can have.  By long-term think geologic time, not the  minuscule time-frame of […]

 

 

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