Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Far beneath the Earth's surface, a fiery world of viscous molten rock exists below the continental and oceanic plates, perpetually ...

Lava could produce a material called basalt fiber that would be suitable for turning into durable fabrics, rebar, insulation materials and structural mesh for the building industry, according to a ...

Submitted by Lockwood DeWitt: How does bimodal volcanism work? Bimodal volcanism is whenever you have a volcano that erupts basalt and rhyolite ... and really nothing else in-between. What does that ...

Volcanos are releasing ash and smoke into the atmosphere on three continents. That might be making you think back to your elementary school science class when you probably studied volcanoes and lava.

There aren’t any volcanoes in Upstate New York, but that doesn’t mean that people there don’t get to see lava in action. At Syracuse University, science, art and outreach unite with controlled, ...

Sometimes, a hole in the ground is just a hole. Other times, it’s a portal to an underground cave spanning miles in width and length. You don’t really know what’s inside unless you dive into the void.

To many, the science of geology can seem incomprehensibly technical and achingly slow. But when Emily Cahoon started her Ph.D. work in the field, the volcanologist, geochemist and igneous petrologist ...

Living in the Yakima Valley, we hardly give basalt a second thought, even though it’s all around us. Three of Yakima’s churches are either built of it, or use it in their foundations. There are pieces ...