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Sand and Tourism in Gran Canaria
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Published January 13, 2013
The supply of sediment is gradually diminishing under the combined pressure of human and natural causes.
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Campi Flegrei, Italy
Published January 9, 2013
The Campi Flegrei calderas, adjacent to Naples, Italy, have produced two of the largest eruptions in Europe in the last 40,000 years.
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Gas emissions at Volcán Copahue
Published January 7, 2013
Magma rising within this volcano (along the border between Chile and Argentina) led to explosions and a plume of volcanic gases.
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Eruption of Tolbachik Volcano
Published December 31, 2012
After more than a month of eruption, lava continues to flow from Tolbachik Volcano.
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Cloud Shadow
Published December 29, 2012
A overlying deck of stratus clouds over northeastern Germany cast this distinctive shadow on another layer of clouds below.
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Ambrym’s Lava Lakes
Published December 19, 2012
The Earth Observing-1 satellite captured this view of twin lava lakes in Vanuatu. One glowed brightly; the other was capped with a thin gray crust of partially-solid rock.
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Snow on Sand near Dunhuang, China
Published December 16, 2012
Precipitation is rare but cold is common in northwestern China. When precipitation falls, it comes as snow upon the dunes.
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