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. Primary Menu Sections.

A magma chamber is a large reservoir of molten rock (magma) located several kilometers beneath a volcano, which it feeds with magma. But what happens to the magma chamber when the volcano is not ...

This showed that drilling into a magma chamber does not cause the volcano to erupt, but in that case, it did destroy the drill well because of the powerful 800-degree heat.

Large, deep magma chamber discovered below Kilauea volcano: Largely unknown internal plumbing of volcanoes. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 01 ...

The eruptions of volcanoes in Chile have been influenced by the expansion and contraction of the glaciers above them, a major geology conference has been told. Although the findings indicate southern ...

HPR contributor Betsy Brown spoke with a USGS geologist during the last eruptive episode to find out what’s causing this ...

Massive Earthquake Swarms Signalled the Birth of a Volcano as Huge Magma Chamber Empties Onto Seafloor. Published Jan 06, 2020 at 11:47 AM EST. By .

Perkins explained that this massive magma body is a sort of "mother chamber," in that its magma is genetically related to the supervolcanoes that have been created over the past 10 million years.

LOS ANGELES – Scientists have spied a vast reservoir of hot, partly molten rock beneath the supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park. It's big enough to fill the Grand Canyon 11 times over. The ...

Dinosaur-killing asteroid created massive magma chamber that lasted millions of years, study shows By Christopher Carbone Fox News Published May 29, 2020 8:05pm EDT ...