A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

Its silica content determines how durable it is. As a result of the presence of silicon, melting temperature and magma flow rate are affected. Temperature, pressure, water content, and mineral ...

Mount Spurr near Anchorage has been showing signs of unrest for a year. Now scientists think it's creeping closer to an ...

Colli Albani, an Italian volcano, has experienced major eruptions thousands of years ago that don’t fit with current models. Using 3D imaging, a team from UNIGE has unraveled this phenomenon, paving ...

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 ...

Heavier plates can slide beneath lighter ones, heating and melting the rock and creating magma. Volcanoes form as the magma ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

This melting forms volcanoes ... Either way, the quakes hint that magma is moving beneath the surface, pushing through breaks in the rock and causing the ground to tremble. The ground may swell ...

The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of water. This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting tectonic ...

The plates sit on top of boiling hot magma (melted rocks to you and me), called the Earth’s mantle. The plates sort of float about on the magma, moving to and fro, sliding into each other and ...