magma

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• Both are clues that the volcanoes are connected by one big caldera, a massive crater that forms when a very large magma chamber in a volcano explodes and empties.

• This internal melting created magma which, through a plumbing system, was thrust out as lava onto the crust.

• Those elements were some of the last to crystalize out of the magma ocean that covered the young moon and can help reveal details of how that process happened.

• At her experimental petrology lab at Jacobs-NASA Johnson Space Center, she subjects these samples to extreme pressure and temperature in “mini magma chambers” to recreate the conditions under which they formed.

• They argue some local source of geothermal heat is needed, such as a magma chamber beneath the surface, to maintain a lake.

• Underneath our feet tectonic plates shift, magma bubbles, water boils, and both regularly erupt.

• When the volcano blew its top, thousands perished, immolated by fire, boiling magma, and ash.

• Iron-heavy minerals are believed to have sunk through the magma before floating to the surface in a new form of mountain.

• Like magma seeping up through geological faults, this emotion can explode in unexpected ways.

• The magma drove upward, melting its way through the fractured rock of the channels under the western side of the island.

• Scientists had arrived, too, and they were taking over much of the detail of keeping track of the .