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How lithium-rich ores are made

Technology Org 26 Dec 2022

Calderas are made when hot magma erupts from beneath the Earth’s crust, forming large chambers that collapse and are partially refilled with some of the material that erupted ... A lake formed over the McDermitt caldera as the magma body beneath the surface cooled.

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What Are Mud Volcanoes?

IFL Science 26 Dec 2022

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ... Advertisement. Except that it didn’t stop ... Advertisement ... For example, analysis of the mud erupting from Lusi has revealed that the water was heated by an underground magma chamber associated with the nearby Arjuno-Welirang volcanic complex ... .

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What are mud volcanoes? The mysterious natural phenomenon explained

Interesting Engineering 25 Dec 2022

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ... See Also. Except that it didn’t stop ... Most Popular ... For example, analysis of the mud erupting from Lusi has revealed that the water was heated by an underground magma chamber associated with the nearby Arjuno-Welirang volcanic complex ... Authors ... .

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A guide to the world of mud volcanoes

Popular Science 24 Dec 2022

Engineers have tried to corral a mud volcano in Indonesia that has covered more than 1,700 acres with mud. ka Dharma/AFP via Getty Images ... The ground had ... For example, analysis of the mud erupting from Lusi has revealed that the water was heated by an underground magma chamber associated with the nearby Arjuno-Welirang volcanic complex ... Michael R ... .

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‘Mind-blowing’ hidden network of magma chambers found under Hawaii’s volcanoes

The Independent 23 Dec 2022

Researchers unsure how magma’s movement in these ‘sills’ could be triggering tiny quakes .

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‘Mind-blowing’ network of magma chambers found under Hawaii’s volcanoes

The Washington Post 22 Dec 2022

A new map of the island’s underworld provides a valuable window into the behavior of some of the most capricious, and hazardous, volcanoes on Earth ... .

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Hawai'i earthquake swarm caused by magma moving through 'sills'

Phys Dot Org 22 Dec 2022

Magma pumping through a massive complex of flat, interconnected chambers deep beneath volcanoes in Hawai'i appears to be ... The pancake-like chambers, called "sills," channel magma laterally and upward to recharge the magma chambers of at least two of the island's active volcanoes.

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NASA hasn't heard from its InSight lander in 5 days. It may have run out ...

Yahoo Daily News 20 Dec 2022

The InSight lander photographs one of its solar arrays in December 2018, left, and May 2022, right.NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA's InSight lander on Mars isn't responding to communications from Earth, likely due to low power levels ... "On Dec ... They even pointed to a potential chamber of magma — molten volcanic rock — deep underground.Story continues ... ....

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Lori Dengler | The big eruptions past and present

Times Standard 17 Dec 2022

GNS is careful to note that the current unrest is not necessarily going to lead to an eruption, but it is a sign that shifting is going on in the vicinity of the magma chamber ... These are the explosive eruptions most often caused by very sticky magma that gas cannot easily escape from ... Silica is what makes magma sticky and traps gasses.

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Stromboli's 'rejuvenation' heralds era of more variable volcanic eruptions

Phys Dot Org 16 Dec 2022

Changes to the layer separating the volcano's reservoirs are allowing deeper magma to rise more quickly, which can trigger violent and unpredictable blasts ... These volcanoes generally erupt effusively, meaning that gas can easily escape from the magma chamber so that the magma escapes as lava flows.

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Scientists say Tonga eruption hit with the force of a billion ton "magma hammer"

Interesting Engineering 13 Dec 2022

"I think it could be like a new batch of magma suddenly just reaching into the magma chamber and over-pressurizing the chamber," he said. "The pulse of the magma is travelling up at high speed and it's like a train hitting the base of the wall.

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Tonga volcano eruption continues to astonish

Yahoo Daily News 13 Dec 2022

Scientists have described a massive "magma hammer" they say slammed the underside of the Tonga volcano which erupted so spectacularly in January ... "I think it could be like a new batch of magma suddenly just reaching into the magma chamber and over-pressurising the chamber," he said.

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Yellowstone National Park’s magma reservoir comes into sharper focus

Victoria Advocate 12 Dec 2022

A new seismic tomography model using a cutting-edge imaging approach that harnesses supercomputing is providing scientists an updated view of Yellowstone National Park’s magma reservoir system ... The new results do not show new accumulation of magma, nor do they signal that magma is on the move or that the magma chamber has changed in recent years.

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View of Yellowstone's magma reservoir now sharper

Victoria Advocate 09 Dec 2022

Although differences exist between studies, a low-wave-speed region at middle-to-upper crustal depths (5–15 kilometers, or 3–9 miles) is thought to represent Yellowstone’s silicic magma reservoir ... The new results do not show new accumulation of magma, nor do they signal that magma is on the move or that the magma chamber has changed in recent years.

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The beast below: Yellowstone's supervolcano - that would cause mass destruction when it erupts next ...

The Daily Mail 06 Dec 2022

... destruction when it erupts next, is holding twice the amount of magma than previously thought, a new study reveals. The discovery was made by analyzing ground vibrations to create 3D images of the magma chamber beneath the land formation.