All Articles Tagged As: lava

Scientists Map Soils on an Extinct American Volcano (10/21/2008)

Thousands of years after the lava cooled, soil scientists conduct sophisticated mapping of the resulting soil landscape. ...> Full Article

Lava flows reveal clues to magnetic field reversals (9/29/2008)

Ancient lava flows are guiding a better understanding of what generates and controls the Earth's magnetic field - and what may drive it to occasionally reverse direction. ...> Full Article

Iron Isotope Composition in Lava Lake Points to Possible Ways to Trace Planetary Origins (6/21/2008)

Scientists have found differences in the iron isotope composition of basalts from a lava lake in Hawaii that point to new ways of studying the origins of the earth and other planets. ...> Full Article

Cutting edge research to uncover oil fields which have lain untapped for 40 million years (6/12/2008)

New help unearthing major potential new oil fields which have lain undiscovered and untapped for over 40 million years. ...> Full Article