Researchers investigate the effects of oxygen content on the melting of mantle rocks and the formation of early Earth magma It is widely accepted that the early Earth largely consisted of molten magma ...

Earth Scientists at Cambridge University have analyzed rock and crystal samples from magma that was extruded in the pre-historic Borgarhraun eruption in Iceland and found that the magma body reached ...

A new 'geospeedometer' that can measure the amount of time between the formation of an explosive magma melt and an eruption confirms that the process took less than 500 years in several ancient ...