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Mount Etna erupted on June 2, 2025. Scientists explain the causes, crater collapse, and future eruption risks. Read the full report on Italy's iconic volcano.
Italy’s Mount Etna volcano violently erupted on Monday, sending plumes of toxic ash and smoke billowing into the sky as people on the mountain ran for safety to escape the danger.
Initial Os-187/Os-188 (350 Ma) of cumulate garnet pyroxenites enclosed in high-temperature peridotite massifs from a Paleozoic convergent plate margin (lower Austria) is slightly suprachondritic to ...
The subsurface is among Earth's largest biomes, but the extent to which microbial communities vary across tectonic plate boundaries or interact with subduction-scale geological processes remains ...
Convergent plate margins associated with lithospheric subduction often exhibit pronounced along-strike curvature, shaped by the interplay of topography, sediment transport, plate interface ...
The across-margin extents of 1) significant convergent strain, 2) margin-parallel bands of vertical displacement, 3) historical seismicity and 4) ETS events, representing inter-plate coupling and ...
The Andean Plateau in South America rises, on average, more than 4,000 meters above sea level, formed by orogenic uplift that began more than 20 million years ago. Orogeny occurs at convergent ...
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Footage posted by the INGV shows the spectacular images. Mount Etna, a highly active volcano worldwide, sits atop the convergent plate margin where the African Plate meets the Eurasian Plate. This ...
Mount Etna, a highly active volcano worldwide, sits atop the convergent plate margin where the African Plate meets the Eurasian Plate. This towering peak stands as one of Europe's tallest active ...