Geodynamics

volcanoes

Unravelling the geological past of the Sierra del Nevado, in South Andes, Argentina

Georgina Rubiano Lorenzoni and edited by Kleoniki Lydia Theodoridou October 26, 2022

Cerro Nevado volcano illustrated by Vojta Hýbl

Have you ever wondered to learn more about the geological setting of the Nevado volcano in Central-West Argentina? In this week’s blog, we have Georgina Rubiano Lorenzoni, a Ph.D. Geologist student from the Universidad Nacional de La Pampa in Argentina, who will guide us through her thesis aims, which are the identification and investigation of the petrogenesis and geochronology of the mountain ra ...[Read More]

Iron volcanism on metallic asteroids?

Editorial Team 3 July 10, 2019

A metallic asteroid with iron volcanism (Elena Hartley)

This week, Francis Nimmo, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (University of California Santa Cruz), tells us about volcanism on metallic asteroids! Around and after the formation of the solar system (4.5 billion years ago onwards), volcanoes on some of the gigantic bodies of the asteroid belt might have erupted … iron. Explanations. One way in which we can learn abou ...[Read More]