Click on the image to see a larger version. Dissected with lava flow and pyroclastic deposit layering along with magmatic dikes exposed. The original flow features are rarely preserved and the volcano ...

Researchers work in the field at Cerro Ballena near Caldera, Chile, as part of a study showing that an increase in volcanic activity in the Andes in the Late Miocene Epoch likely resulted in a cooling ...

Cotopaxi National Park in Ecuador reveals a dramatic volcanic landscape dominated by the towering, snow-covered summit of ...

Add to the long list of global warming concerns that melting ice caps could trigger more volcanic eruptions. Worse, researchers said Monday at a scientific conference in Prague, the increasing ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that intense volcanic activity in the Andes Mountains roughly 6 to 9 million years ago may have played a key role in the Earth’s global cooling. The ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 178 applied, health, natural and social sciences journals, across many different publishers, chosen by an independent group of researchers. The ...

The dry, wind-swept summits of volcanoes in the Puna de Atacama of Chile and Argentina are the closest thing on Earth to the surface of Mars due to their thin atmosphere and freezing temperatures. At ...

I was looking at the geology subreddit the other day and someone asked an intriguing question: why aren't the Himalayas volcanic? They are the largest mountains on the planet and span thousands of ...

n 2010, construction workers on the Panamerican Highway traversing Chile’s Atacama Desert stumbled upon a nearly perfectly preserved fossilized whale – and once paleontologists rushed to the site to ...