Far beneath the Earth's surface, a fiery world of viscous molten rock exists below the continental and oceanic plates, perpetually churning and shifting under the immense pressure and stress of a ...

The origin and stability of deep-mantle melts, and the magmatic processes at different times of Earth’s history are controlled by the physical properties of constituent silicate liquids. Here we ...

The NASA Earth Observatory has been doing an excellent job ofmonitoring the eruption at Eritrea's Nabro using all their eyes in the sky. The latest image, taken from the EO-1 Advanced Land Imager (see ...

International group of researchers involving geologists from Wits University (Prof. Rais Latypov and Dr. Sofya Chistyakova) in Johannesburg have come up with an unexpected conclusion that basaltic ...

Geoscientists have long thought that water -- along with shallow magma stored in Earth's crust -- drives volcanoes to erupt. Now, thanks to newly developed research tools, scientists have learned that ...

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 ...

It’s not hard to see why researchers are worried about a Yellowstone eruption. If the supervolcano were to erupt, the ...

Volcanic activity bubbling away beneath the Yellowstone National Park in the US appears to be on the move. New research shows ...

If you remember back a few years ago, I mentioned that my officemate, Dr. Naomi Marks, and her graduate advisors at UC Davis at the time, Dr. Peter Schiffman and Robert Zierenberg, along with other ...