For decades, volcanologists believed that the primary trigger for explosive eruptions was a drop in pressure as magma rises toward the surface. When pressure falls, gases dissolved deep within the ...
What would happen if you dumped one of the world’s coldest liquids into the boiling, volatile mouth of a volcano? Would it ...
For more than 100,000 years, a Greek volcano lay silent. But deep underground, it was still growing. Tiny zircon crystals show magma was quietly brewing between eruptions, researchers report April 22 ...
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