Another Huge Eruption Sometime (Geologically) SoonA correspondent has sent me THIS LINK concerning a volcano wh...

 Can Volcanos be Connected?A correspondent has sent me THIS ARTICLE. For ever geologists have thought that volcanoes could be studied in isolation but, more recently it has been discovered that magma does not just travel tow...

 What Caused the Younger DryasThe Younger Dryas was a cold period which started 12,870 years ago. The last glacial maximum had finished about 20,000 years ago, so there had been about 7,000 years when things had been getting warmer. At 12,870 years ago thing got cooler quickly - in Europe the average temperature dropped 6⁰C in just 3 years! I suspect this would make ...

 Down to Earth Extra April 2026The April 2026 edition of Down to Earth Extra has been published. you can download it HERE or you can read it below.

Subducted Slabs - Where and How

Earth-Logs, one of this blogs favourite sources has come up with an interesting article which you can find HERE. It is based on THIS ARTICLE which will appear in a Nature Journal soon.

It concerns subducting plates and what happens to them. It is thought that mineral density changes are t...