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Antarctica Has One Place Where Ships Can Sail Directly Into The Center of an Active Volcano
First look at the island may offer the picture of a dead caldera but a closer look reveals that the caldera actually holds a ...
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Volcano Watch: All in a day’s work; determining magma storage depths at Kīlauea
By the end of the day, about 7 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, data from 16 crystals was collected and analyzed. The data, which ...
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Dormant U.S. Volcano Still Packed with Magma—Are We in Danger?
Among them, Crater Lake in Oregon, which has been inactive for 4,800 years, harbors a surprisingly large magma chamber beneath it. These findings, published in Nature Geoscience, could reshape how ...
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Slow As A Sloth Or Swift As A Sprinter? Clocking The Speed Of Yellowstone’s Magma
To time how fast a sprinter runs, you just need a stopwatch. To time how fast magma moves, you need to know a little bit ...
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Anatomy of Nyiragongo
Magma collects inside a volcano's magma chamber before it erupts. Nyiragongo's magma chamber is located about 10 miles below the surface of the Earth.
Earthquake, volcano, wildfire: Ways to prepare for emergencies in Washington state
Learn how to prepare for disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes, and wildfires in Washington state with these safety tips and ...
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When Yellowstone Explodes
First, a plume of heat wells up from deep within the planet and melts rock just beneath the crust of the Earth, creating a vast chamber filled with a pressurized mix of magma, semisolid rock ...