The famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum created a super-heated ash cloud that turned one ...

Archeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

Surge Deposits are a geological formation resulting from a pyroclastic surge-a fast-moving, ground-hugging flow of hot gas and volcanic particles ejected during explosive volcanic eruptions. This new ...

A joint effort started in 1986 by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Volcano ...

The selling prices in wholesale trade were 0.9% higher in January 2025 than in January 2024. Compared with the same month a year earlier, the rate of change was +0.1% in December 2024, and -0.6% in ...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Researchers at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City ... Maquiling investigated how to use the pyroclastic material from Taal’s eruption. “Iron has greater ...

It produced a 'violent' ejection of pumice (a porous rock formed when a gas-rich froth of glassy lava solidifies rapidly) and a pyroclastic surge (a dense collection of hot gas and volcanic ...

Bronze Age footprints in volcanic debris. © Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino via Facebook Imagine ...

This catastrophic event marked a turning point in the understanding of the geological and climatic impacts of volcanoes. The eruption unleashed rivers of lava and devastating pyroclastic flows that ...

The volcano hazard center said Mount Merapi's activity status remains at Level III (Alert). "The current potential dangers include lava flows and pyroclastic flows to the south-southwest sector, ...

Here, we conducted detailed mineral textures, mineral chemistry, and geochemical studies on Daliuchong pyroclastic rocks to explore the pre-eruptive storage conditions and evolution processes of the ...