Geologists turned to tiny bubbles to investigate the dynamics driving magma flow beneath Hawaii’s volcanoes as the country’s islands drift northwest on a tectonic plate. They found that, as the ...

When you picture a volcano ... is that we know much less about magma chambers like this than we’d like to. We’re not even good at depicting them. “We draw them as red balloons,” says ...

Nearly a mile deep and about 700 miles northwest of San Francisco, the volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing ... more explosive in general. The magma is more viscous," Chadwick ...

“There’s a magma intrusion causing the volcano to inflate, causing those earthquakes,” says Haney. The observatory changed the aviation notice from green (the volcano is acting ...

The volcano has erupted three times since 1998, with the most recent one in 2015. Recently, researchers have noticed that magma build-up has caused the volcano to inflate to near the levels seen ...

Using advanced technology that analyzes tiny gas bubbles trapped in crystal, a team of scientists led by Cornell has precisely mapped how magma storage evolves as Hawaiian volcanoes age. Geologists ...

but here at the volcano, where new land is forming, the earth changes rapidly as fissures open up, and molten lava spills across the landscape. And in recent years, several sheets of magma ...

Axial Seamount is a hotspot volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge and has a regular supply of magma, making it a great place to study, according to Bill Chadwick, a Research Associate at Oregon State ...

Geologists turned to tiny bubbles to investigate the dynamics driving magma flow beneath Hawaii's volcanoes as the country's islands drift northwest on a tectonic plate. They found that ...

Volcanic eruptions begin deep beneath Earth's surface, as magma pushes upward. This magma releases gases, primarily carbon dioxide, before reaching the surface. Unlike sulfur dioxide, which ...