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Researchers Discover Unexpected Magma Systems Lurking Beneath ‘Boring’ Volcanoes – ScienceAlert
Not all volcanoes are suddenly explosive. Some spew steady rivers of gloppy, slow-moving lava for millennia on end, like those in the Hawaiian or Galápagos islands.
Not all volcanoes are suddenly explosive. Some spew steady rivers of gloppy, slow-moving lava for millennia on end, like those in the Hawaiian or Galápagos islands.
These are what volcanologist Michael Stock from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland calls the ‘boring’ volcanoes yet underneath their monotonous exterior, lurks a bombshell that Stock and his colleagues have just discovered.
Analysing microscopic crystals in the basalt and ejected material of two volcanoes in the Galápagos, the rese…
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