Tagged: magma

More bad news for dinosaurs: Chicxulub meteorite impact triggered global volcanic eruptions on the ocean floor - Guest Work

Guest Author • Feb 12, 2018 •

• Chicxulub,
• Dinosaurs,
• Earth,
• extinct,
• extraterrestial,
• gravity,
• lava,
• magma,
• Mars,
• mass extinction,
• Meteorite,
• ocean,
• planet,
• Venus,
• volcanic eruption

Leif Karlstrom, University of Oregon and Joseph Byrnes, University of Minnesota This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago was a rough time to be living on Earth. Three global catastrophes occurred nearly simultaneously: The Chicxulub meteorite slammed into … Read More

Magma power: how superheated molten rock could provide renewable energy - Guest Work

Guest Author • Oct 30, 2016 •

• Electricity,
• energy,
• geothermal,
• magma,
• power

By Pete Rowley, University of Portsmouth Iceland is about to tap into water as hot as lava. Several kilometres below ground, a drilling rig named Thor will soon penetrate the area around a magma chamber, where molten rock from the inner Earth heats up water that has seeped through the seafloor. This water – up to 1,000°C and … Read More

Newly identified magma chamber explains Bay of Plenty earthquakes - News

Erica Mather • Jun 07, 2016 •

• Bay of Plenty,
• earthquake swarm,
• GPS,
• magma,
• Matata,
• Satellite,
• survey

A combination of satellite images, GPS data and survey information from the 1950s have enabled scientists to uncover a magma chamber under the Bay of Plenty coast, which they link to thousands of small earthquakes here between 2004 and 2011. Until this finding, published in Science Advances, the reason for the earthquake ‘swarm’ was thought to be tectonic. Now … Read More