Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists at USGS’s Yellowstone Volcanic Observatory are grappling with a mysterious case: the case of the missing sulfur ...

Volcanic activity bubbling away beneath the Yellowstone National Park in the US appears to be on the move. New research shows that the reservoirs of magma that fuel the supervolcano's wild outbursts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...