Two types of magma exist under the park. One is basaltic magma, which triggers most volcanic activity on Earth. It erupts more easily because it has a lower resistance to flow, but underneath ...

This type of magma is called “basaltic”, and it tends to produce pretty mild eruptions. Hawaii is also a basaltic hotspot, for instance. However, hotspots can also melt the material around ...

the generation and transport of basaltic magma; the development and evolution of volcanic systems; magma degassing; volcanic hazard assessment; radiometric methods for dating igneous and sedimentary ...

with the primary basalt formation age determined to be approximately 2.82 billion years. These findings validate the lunar magma ocean hypothesis, which states that the moon experienced global ...

The analysis of mantle-derived rocks on increasingly smaller scales and advances in geodynamic modelling are providing new insights into the nature of mantle heterogeneity and magmatic processes.

Their work has been reported in a paper entitled the ‘Role of syn-eruptive plagioclase disequilibrium crystallization in basaltic magma ascent dynamics’ published by the prestigious journal Nature ...

So, rather than using absolute ages to constrain the timescales of individual eruption durations, my research uses the width of a thermal imprint created by a magmatic intrusion to quantify the ...