9 results for “volcano”
Planet Earth
Volcanoes
volcano erupts. Gentle and violent How a volcano erupts depends on its lava. Basalt lava, formed
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Planets & the Solar System
Mercury and Venus
volcanoes, with surprisingly few craters. Something resurfaced the whole planet with lava a few hundred million
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Planet Earth
Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
volcanoes and the deepest ocean trenches. When two continents collide, neither will sink, so the crust
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Planet Earth
Inside the Earth
volcanoes. Under the continents it is thicker, up to seventy kilometres beneath mountain ranges, and made
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
volcanoes, some throwing plumes 400 kilometres high. Europa is the opposite: a smooth shell of ice criss
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Planets & the Solar System
Mars
volcanoes stayed in one place and grew enormous. Olympus Mons rises about 22 kilometres above the surrounding
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Planet Earth
The Oceans
volcanoes and hot springs add more. The sea is not getting steadily saltier, though: salt is removed
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Sound
volcanoes and elephants, which can call to each other across several kilometres. Why it matters Sound
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
volcanoes and a thin blue atmosphere, on a world at minus 230 degrees. Its surface is young
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