Note: This is the fourth in a series of six Guest Opinions commemorating the Craters of the Moon National Monument Centennial. While southern Idaho’s vast Snake River Plain is lauded and renowned ...

MOSCOW, Idaho -- The University of Idaho announced Thursday that postdoctoral researcher, Ian T.W. Flynn found what looks to be a spatter cone of volcanic matter on Mars. Flynn compared the volcanic ...

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MOSCOW, Idaho — A University of Idaho postdoctoral researcher, Ian T.W. Flynn, working under Erika Rader, an assistant professor at the school in the Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences, has ...

What may look like a single volcanic eruption is usually the visible outcome of far more complicated activity taking place underground. Beneath the surface, magma can migrate, cool, mix, and ...

The power of such eruptions is measured using the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), which is a scale that goes from one to ...

MOSCOW, Idaho - A study led by the University of Idaho has uncovered the first evidence of a volcanic spatter cone on Mars. According to a press release from the University of Idaho, Ian Flynn, a ...