Category Archives: Geology

The Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands has received a lot of attention as a potential mega-tsunami generator. The premise is that it is a steep sided, active volcanic island with identified zones of weakness running approximately north-south that if she … Continue reading →

For anybody that remembers the old blog, you may remember that I had gone down the path of geologic extinctions. In the Phanerozoic (last 542 million years) there have been 5 great extinctions and many minor extinctions. We use the Phanerozoic because … Continue reading →