The world's "sleeping giants" can wake up much quicker than thought, according to a new volcano model. Scientists believe the magma chambers—or reservoirs of molten rock—under dormant ...

The classic model argues that as the magma chamber fills, the larger volume pushes simply the overlying ground up. An alternative model suggests that hot fluids from the magma heat the rock and a ...

Until now it was thought that once a volcano's magma chamber had cooled down it remained dormant for centuries before it could be remobilized by fresh magma. A theoretical model developed by Alain ...

This model was published in June - also in the journal Nature Geoscience - and describes a system made up of a magma chamber in the upper crust that is connected with further chambers in the lower ...

To do so, they used a thermomechanical magma chamber model and simulated a shrinking West Antarctic Ice Sheet through ...

Overpressure failure occurs when the top seal of the magma chamber weakens. The model was able to pinpoint which type of failure Okmok experienced. “In Okmok's case, we saw that the probability ...

Rather than evoking a model where magma has to stop and start ... up from depth into a deep and shallow reservoir. Tiered magma chamber models like this have been suggested before, but it is ...

Bennington and her colleagues carried out a wide-scale magnetotelluric survey across the Yellowstone Caldera, and used the resulting data to model ... magma in the lower crust heat and maintain ...

The researchers used a model to simulate how different decreases in magma chamber pressure influences the ice sheet's melting. They also explored how the loss of surface mass due to melting ...

Scientists in Iceland have come up with an ambitious plan to drill into a volcano's magma chamber to source an abundant amount of clean, super-hot geothermal energy. The project, which would be a ...

They will soon be joined by another, which will be anything but boring. “We are going to drill into a magma chamber,” says Hjalti Páll Ingólfsson at the Geothermal Research Cluster (GEORG ...