Volcanoes offer breath-taking views and thrilling adventures. Explore Iceland’s Thrihnukagigur magma chamber, Costa Rica’s ...

Mafic igneous rock is a material rich in specific minerals that forms when magma cools. The site is not a tree stump. It is unclear if the video in the post is authentic or digitally generated.

Now, Yellowstone's magma is on the move ... "The locus of future rhyolitic [igneous rock] volcanism has shifted to north-east Yellowstone caldera," according to the team, which was led by Ninfa ...

ISLA: Traprain Law is an unusual igneous intrusion called a laccolith. Igneous intrusions form when molten rock, or magma, from deep underground pushes up towards the Earth’s surface but cools ...

Luckily, there are no large igneous provinces active today ... Either way, the quakes hint that magma is moving beneath the surface, pushing through breaks in the rock and causing the ground ...

Detrital zircons, found in sediment that has been weathered out of rock, can hold more continuous records of Earth's history than igneous zircon formed from molten rock or magma. But because ...

I have on-going projects to study: Processes in intrusions: How big are magma chambers? How do igneous cumulates form? What processes occur in magma chambers? For example, is compaction or porous ...

Areas of expertise My research concerns the generation, movement and evolution of magma within the Earth. I use a combination of igneous petrology, high temperature and pressure experimental , ...

Volcanic rock is formed when lava or magma cools down and becomes a solid. We call this type of rock igneous rock. Here are three different types of igneous rock from the Museum’s collection.