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Etna Volcano Eruption 12 January 2011

Scientists 'see' puzzling features deep in Earth’s interior

19 May 2022

New research led by the University of Cambridge is the first to obtain a detailed 'image' of an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary layer with...

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Alaska’s Pavlof Volcano: NASA’s View from Space

Earth's interior is swallowing up more carbon than thought

26 Jul 2021

Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have found that slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates drag more carbon into Earth’s...

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Topography of Hindu Kush.

Earthquake rocks Afghanistan and Pakistan – an area prone to magnitude 7 quakes

27 Oct 2015

Professor Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses the devastating earthquake that struck Afghanistan on October 26 and the geological...

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The city of Muzafarabad, Pakistan lays in ruins after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake that hit the region.

Earthquakes without frontiers

26 Oct 2015

The Alpine–Himalayan belt, which stretches from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, is one of the world’s most seismically active regions. Now, a...

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Bárðarbunga and Holuhraun

New understanding of how magma moves underground

15 Dec 2014

An international team of geoscientists have demonstrated how magma-filled cracks form and spread underneath volcanic systems, such as the one...

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Geologists discover ancient buried canyon in South Tibet

20 Nov 2014

The discovery of an ancient buried canyon in Tibet rules out a popular model used to explain how the massive and picturesque gorges of the Himalaya...

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