Sensors used to monitor extreme environments need to provide reliable measurements despite high temperatures and harsh conditions. Now, researchers have developed a piezoelectric sensor that works at ...
Top: Map of thorium concentrations near Compton crater on the lunar far side. Bottom: LRO view of the felsic highland volcano. After Jolliff et al. (2011), Nature Geoscience 4, 566. The flood of new ...
Kilauea Volcano is one of the most active in the world, spewing lava onto land and the surrounding Pacific Ocean as it continually expands the big island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano is between 300,000 ...
Continental arcs are generated when an oceanic plate dives (i.e. subducts) beneath continental crust, causing melting in the mantle and the formation of volcanoes on the overriding continent. In ...