Volcanoes Could Reveal Where to Dig Minerals For Future Energy Technology
About 400 kilometres northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...
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Crystals hold a secret history of volcanoes—and clues about future eruptions
Volcano crystal balls Magma, the super-hot molten rock which feeds volcanic eruptions, is generated many tens of kilometers below the surface in Earth's mantle. On its journey up to the surface ...
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Evidence of Upheaval in Vanua Levu, Fiji
Its surface is in great part traversed by mountainous ridges, which form an intricate system, and consist in each case of an axis of basic and often coarsely crystalline volcanic rocks concealed ...
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Continent-size blobs in Earth's mantle are a billion years old, ancient crystals reveal
Crystals in the mantle take a long time to ... The stable LLSVPs might help explain why volcanic rocks in different parts of the world have different compositions or how tectonic plates are ...
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Scientists discover enormous reservoir hidden in Cascades — more than twice the amount of water in Lake Mead
An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have revealed. A hidden reservoir of ...
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Continent-size blobs in Earth's mantle are a billion years old, ancient crystals reveal
Crystals in the mantle take a long time to ... This process may help explain the geological composition of volcanic rocks around the world. | Credit: Utrecht University "They must have been ...