stackyFACTSImagine holding a candle under a very slowly moving sheet of plastic. Deep underground, superheated columns of magma stay perfectly still while the crust drifts helplessly over them. This geological blowtorch burns a neat line of consecutive volcanoes into the rock over millions of years, just because it can.
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Not all bedrock is created equal. The landmasses we stand on are buoyant, thick accumulations of granite that refuse to sink, while the thin, incredibly dense…
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The ground is supposedly solid, unless there is a giant reservoir of molten rock trying to escape. As subterranean magma pools fill up, the intense pressure…
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Igneous rocks are just cooled-down lava, meaning they all started as terrifyingly hot, molten liquid. When magma escapes the crust, it cools quickly into…
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Minerals do not just break randomly; they possess cleavage, which is the tendency to consistently break along specific flat planes of structural weakness. Hit…
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When glaciers aggressively move over loose sediment, they sometimes smear the dirt into elongated, teardrop-shaped hills called drumlins. They almost always…
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While most volcanoes blow up once and sleep for centuries, Hawaii's Kilauea behaves like an overactive fountain. It has been erupting almost non-stop for…
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