Researchers have found a new way to estimate how fast magma is recharging beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano. While their findings offer no help in predicting if the volcano will erupt, …read more Source:: Science
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Geophysicists uncover new evidence for an alternative style of plate tectonics
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•Scientists have determined that a volcano and mountain plateau across Turkey formed not by the collision of tectonic plates, but by a massive detachment of plate material beneath Earth’s surface. …read more Source:: Science
Massive ‘lake’ discovered under volcano could unlock why and how volcanoes erupt
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•A huge magmatic lake has been discovered, 15 kilometers below a dormant volcano in Bolivia, South America. The body of water, which is dissolved into partially molten rock at a …read more Source:: Science