eruption
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The park service said earthquakes during the 2018 Kīlauea volcano eruption and summit collapse had damaged the cliffs near the arch.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Before the team could use the eruption as a dependable benchmark, Hasler needed to address a long-standing disagreement over exactly when Vesuvius erupted.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Renne and his colleagues had already used sanidine from pumice produced during the 79 CE eruption to test argon-argon dating.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Expanding gases and intense heat drive this material upwards, creating a vast eruption column rising 30–50 kilometers into the atmosphere – far above commercial passenger aircraft, which usually cruise at up to about 13 kilometers.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
They hadn’t seen any signs of an imminent eruption in the seismic data.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
About a decade ago, Renne used argon-argon dating to establish precise ages for a meteor impact, major volcanic eruptions in India and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Reassuringly for YVO staff, Yellowstone has produced similarly alarming combinations of signals before with no subsequent eruptions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Several months later, eruptions have weakened to intermittent explosions, but the threat of renewed activity remains.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Even a single volcano can produce eruptions through very different processes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
He himself had been enmagicked as a young boy, and he knew the consequences of the action—the odd eruptions, the disruptions in thinking, the unpleasant extension of the life span.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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