volcanoes
Earthquakes, volcanoes and movement of the Earth's tectonic plates influence decline in coral habitat more than short-term environmental changes, a new study by Australian researchers has found. The study reveals a major role for long-term geological …
Editor’s Note: A detail from this larger panoramic image: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/4554348391/ Volcanoes near Usulutan, El Salvador are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station. The Pacific coastline of much of Central America is marked by a line of active and quiescent volcanoes known to geologists as the [...]
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This photograph, featuring a landscape in the central Andes mountains near the Chile/Argentina border dominated by numerous volcanoes and associated landforms, was photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member on the International Space Station. Layers of older sedimentary rocks are visible to the southeast (upper right). Many of the volcanic cones show grooves eroded by [...]
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Editor’s Note: This is an archive image from 2007. Pagan Island, Northern Mariana Islands, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 14 crewmember on the International Space Station. According to scientists, the Mariana Islands are part a volcanic island arc — surface volcanoes formed from magma generation as one tectonic plate is overridden [...]
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Alaid Volcano in the Kuril Islands of the Russian Federation is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 31 crew member on the International Space Station. The Kurils chain extends from the Kamchatka Peninsula to the islands of Japan, and contains numerous active volcanoes along its length. Alaid is the highest (2,339 meters above [...]
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Volcanoes near Usulutan, El Salvador are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station. The Pacific coastline of much of Central America is marked by a line of active and quiescent volcanoes known to geologists as the Central American Volcanic Arc, or CAVA. The volcanoes result from [...]
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