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How ancient lava flows mimic honeycomb physics to build nature’s strangest columns
Nature rarely does straight lines. If you look at a forest, a rock, or a coastline, you see all sorts of shapes and chaos.
In a field test of their instrument, University at Buffalo researchers gathered viscosity data from lava flows at the Litli-Hrútur eruption in Iceland. WASHINGTON, June 4, 2024 – Millions of people ...
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Protecting Iceland's towns from lava flows—with dirt
It had been dormant for 800 years, but in March 2021, the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland came to life. While the eruption was ongoing, large-scale field experiments were conducted to build ...
20 May 2021. Fjóla Guðrún Sigtryggsdóttir is shown studying the lava field upstream of the dams, with the Fagradalsfjall volcano in the background. It had been dormant for 800 years, but in March 2021 ...
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