9 results for “eruption”
Planet Earth
Volcanoes
erupts. Gentle and violent How a volcano erupts depends on its lava. Basalt lava, formed from
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Life & Biology
Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions
eruptions in India around the same time may have made things worse. The other four The end of the dinosaurs
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Planet Earth
Inside the Earth
erupted from undersea volcanoes. Under the continents it is thicker, up to seventy kilometres beneath mountain
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Planet Earth
Rocks, Minerals and Fossils
erupted and cooled quickly at the surface, the crystals had no time to grow and the rock
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
erupts through hundreds of volcanoes, some throwing plumes 400 kilometres high. Europa is the opposite: a smooth
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Plants & Fungi
Trees and Forests
eruptions and climate long before anyone was writing. Below ground, the roots spread as far as the branches
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
erupts and wraps around the entire planet. At the north pole sits one of the strangest
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
erupting as the Sun rose on each part of its surface. Comets delivered water and carbon
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Life & Biology
Evolution
Every species alive, including ours, descends from earlier ones, shaped over millions of years by a
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