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Thanks to its geothermally active location, the town of Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture (in the background of this image), is one of Japan’s most popular onsen (hot springs) destinations. The acidic and vibrant turquoise Yugama crater lake, however, is definitely not suitable for swimming. Credit: Tomoya Obase

Monitoring ‘frothy’ magma gases could help evade disaster

November 25, 2022

Study proves that magma chambers are huge masses of crystals with just a very small amount of melt

Yellowstone hot spring

New way to estimate magma beneath Yellowstone supervolcano

moon's mantle

Magma ocean may be responsible for the moon’s early magnetic field

Scientists have now made the best computational modeling yet of mantle plumes, hypothesized, mushroom-shaped upwellings of hot rock from the deep Earth. They plumes are hypothesized to form within the thermal boundary layer at the base of the mantle and are thought to carry heat from Earth's core that generates a volcano's magma.

Catching mantle plumes by their magma tails

Magma Pancakes beneath Lake Toba

November 1, 2014

Experts map deep magma reservoir below Washington’s Mt. Rainier

July 21, 2014

Scientists ready to study magma formation beneath Mount St. Helens

June 19, 2014

Earthquakes Caused by Clogged Magma a Warning Sign of Eruption, Study...

March 18, 2014

X-Rays Reveal Inner Structure of Earth’s Ancient Magma Ocean

November 7, 2013

Crystals in Picabo’s Rocks Point to ‘Recycled’ Super-Volcanic Magma Chambers

October 12, 2013

Molten Magma Can Survive in Upper Crust for Hundreds of Millennia

August 20, 2013

Scientists Image Deep Magma Beneath Pacific Seafloor Volcano

March 30, 2013

Magma in Mantle Has Deep Impact

January 13, 2013

Hot stuff: Magma at shallow depth under Hawaii

September 15, 2011

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