stackyFACTSWhile flowing magma looks like beautifully mesmerizing glowing syrup, it hardens into intensely rough, obsidian-like shards. Walking across a fresh volcanic field guarantees you will aggressively shred the bottom of your boots to pieces.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Science →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Gazing into a terrifying caldera of molten rock and immediately thinking it would be an excellent disposal site. The searing heat looks capable of vaporizing…
Discover more
To the untrained eye, field researchers appear utterly insane, but pressing a dirty rock to your tongue is genuinely an official diagnostic technique for…
Discover more
What massive, invisible threat is constantly drifting directly across the Atlantic Ocean right now?
Discover more
When you hear 'ash,' you probably picture soft, harmless flakes from a campfire. Volcanic ash is nothing like that. It is actually pulverized rock and jagged…
Discover more
People pay massive fortunes for luxury marble countertops, completely ignoring its incredibly humble geological origins. It literally starts out as basic,…
Discover more
When intensely hot lava contracts rapidly, it mathematically fractures into eerily precise geometric pillars. The perfectly straight edges appear as though an…
Discover more