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lava & magma

A panoramic view of the Lusi eruption, in Indonesia, from December 2013.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

What Feeds Indonesia’s Destructive Mud Eruption?

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 2 January 201827 October 2021

New advances in seismic investigations suggest links in plumbing between nearby magma volcanoes and a mud-erupting system that has been spewing for more than a decade.

Jupiter’s moon Io
Posted inNews

Scientists Discover Stromboli-Like Eruption on Volcanic Moon

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 27 December 20175 January 2022

Jupiter’s moon Io is known for its lava fountains and roiling lava lakes, but scientists had never seen such an intense eruption in their data until now.

A view of Ecuador’s Mejia Canton in 2015, with Cotopaxi volcano erupting in the background.
Posted inFeatures

Probing Magma Reservoirs to Improve Volcano Forecasts

by J. B. Lowenstern, T. W. Sisson and S. Hurwitz 23 October 201727 October 2021

The roots of volcanoes remain enigmatic, largely because geophysical and petrological models remain rudimentary. Scientific drilling and exploration can help.

homemade lava bubbles on ice
Posted inNews

Homemade Lava Flows Fuse Science with Art on Video

by Lauren Lipuma and D. Sollosi 29 June 20174 October 2021

An artist’s impulse to recreate natural landscapes leads to fiery scientific explorations that elucidate the behavior of erupting lava and the solid shapes it becomes.

Researchers search for signals of an eruption of the Villarrica volcano in Chile
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Can Volcanic Gas Levels Predict an Eruption?

Alexandra Branscombe by A. Branscombe 12 June 201722 December 2021

Researchers test whether the changing composition of volcanic gas can signal a coming eruption in Chile’s Villarrica volcano.

The Klyuchevskoy volcano in eastern Russia during an eruption that began in April 2016 and lasted about 6 months.
Posted inScience Updates

Understanding Kamchatka’s Extraordinary Volcano Cluster

by N. M. Shapiro, C. Sens-Schönfelder, B. G. Lühr, M. Weber, I. Abkadyrov, E. I. Gordeev, I. Koulakov, A. Jakovlev, Y. A. Kugaenko and V. A. Saltykov 1 May 20178 November 2021

An international seismological collaboration in Kamchatka, Russia, investigates the driving forces of one of the world’s largest, most active volcano clusters.

A new numerical model tracks the speed and pathway of a dike propagating through the Earth’s crust.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

An Improved Model of How Magma Moves Through the Crust

by Terri Cook 18 April 201717 November 2022

Researchers have developed a new numerical model that can, for the first time, solve for both the speed and the path of a propagating dike.

A hollow lava balloon recovered from the 1998-2001 eruption near the Azores, Portugal.
Posted inNews

Balloons of Lava Bubble into the Ocean from Seafloor Blisters

by Lauren Lipuma 5 April 20174 October 2021

These peculiar features of submarine volcanic eruptions could be the result of undersea lava lakes.

Researchers work to track the fragmented magma bombs that fly through the air during an explosive eruption
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tracking Volcanic Bombs in Three Dimensions

Leah Crane by L. Crane 13 March 20172 May 2022

A new method allows researchers to precisely track in three dimensions bits of fragmented magma as they are expelled in explosive volcanic eruptions.

Mineral layers offer a key to examine the behavior of individual magma pulses in volcanic arcs.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Pulses of Rising Magma in Sierra Nevada's Past

by Terri Cook 3 February 20177 March 2023

A detailed study of layered igneous material at California's Fisher Lake offers a novel approach to identifying the pathways and timescales of individual magma pulses in volcanic arcs.

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