The aviation color code over the area has been changed from green to yellow as a precaution, the Icelandic meteorological ...

Effusive eruptions involve the outpouring of basaltic lava that flows quite easily and produces little gas. Explosive eruptions contain lava that is thicker and therefore does not flow as easy and ...

Many volcanoes produce similar types of eruption over millions of years. For example, volcanoes in Iceland, Hawai’i and the Galápagos Islands consistently erupt lava flows – comprised of molten ...

More than 130 earthquakes were registered Tuesday at Iceland's large Bardarbunga volcano, a possible precursor to an eruption among the several scenarios being considered, the Icelandic meteorological ...

That, and it's not a great idea to attempt to plug them up with concrete. The most common type of lava flow is basaltic, making up around 90 percent of all lava flows on the planet. In these flows ...

One way to find water worlds beyond our solar system could be to look for minerals — or more specifically, to study minerals mixed with cool lava on exoplanet surfaces. This is because if water ...

It's all relative, of course, but the analysis shows the basalt material - the solidified remnants of a lava flow - to be just two billion years old. Compare this with the samples returned by the ...