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 ...

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 ...

Mars’ thick crust may have been a hidden engine of geological activity, producing granitic magmas and sustaining underground ...

This photo taken and beamed back to Earth autonomously by a mini rover released from the lander-ascender combination of Chang ...

If magma erupts on the surface as lava, it will form extrusive rock, e.g. basalt. These rocks are formed when magma solidifies. As the magma cools, mineral crystals will begin to grow. These ...

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 ...

Moon was once covered by global magma ocean but later bombardments of asteroids caused different evolution processes,’ ...

A new study of the lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission has verified the hypothesis that the Moon was ...