The discovery has revealed a hidden process that could change how scientists understand volcanic systems.

Understanding what triggers large volcanic eruptions is crucial for hazard assessment, but the exact mechanism driving these ...

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Although volcanic eruptions are spectacular natural events that occur around the world every day, most volcanoes spend the ...

Volcanic glass chips from the Krafla magma chamberThe ongoing research began with an unexpected discovery in 2009, when drilling in ...

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Scientists in Iceland have come up with an ambitious plan to drill into a volcano's magma chamber to source an abundant amount of clean, super-hot geothermal energy. The project, which would be a ...

The future of geology — and maybe even renewable energy — is heating up, literally. Scientists in Iceland are steaming ahead with an ambitious project to drill straight down into a magma chamber that ...

The project, which would be a scientific first if successful, would see boreholes drilled about 1.3 miles down through the earth’s crust at a volcano known as Krafla, located in the northeast of ...