A picture of Midway Geiser in Yellowstone National Park shows streams of red liquid flowing away from its center. The amount of melted rock beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano is far higher than ...

According to Jennifer Lyn Lewicki, a research geologist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) California Volcano Observatory, Yellowstone's sulfur dioxide is not really missing. Instead, it ...

A massive complex of flat, interconnected magma chambers has been found by scientists deep beneath volcanoes in Hawaii that seem to be responsible for a swarm of unexplained tiny earthquakes felt on ...

“This process can be likened to a bottle of sparkling water containing dissolved volatiles that exolve when the bottle is ...

Anaheim, Calif., USA: For over a century, the concept of a shallow magma chamber—a large magma-filled cavity just ~5 km under the base of a volcano—has been the foundation for igneous petrology and ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Madison Myers, assistant professor of ...

Volcanoes are not fed by molten magma formed in large chambers finds a new study, overturning classic ideas about volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes are not fed by molten magma formed in large chambers ...

The future of geology — and maybe even renewable energy — is heating up, literally. Scientists in Iceland are steaming ahead with an ambitious project to drill straight down into a magma chamber that ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Though immensely powerful, volcanoes are not always spewing hot lava ...

A new study has uncovered a previously undetected magma chamber beneath Kolumbo, an active submarine volcano in the Mediterranean Sea near Santorini, Greece. A group of international researchers used ...

The events leading up to the birth of a new volcano have been recorded by scientists, with researchers showing how around 7,000 earthquakes were produced in the lead up to an eruption, where a huge ...

Basaltic magma chambers may develop as large bodies of crystal-free melts in the Earth's crust. This study challenges a recently-emerged paradigm that magma chambers are huge masses of crystal-rich ...