When this pressure is released, for example as a result of plate movement, magma shoots to the surface causing a volcanic eruption. Above the ground the liquid rock is called lava and as it cools ...

And the popular tourist destination Blue Lagoon, near where the seismic and volcanic activity has occurred, has been evacuated several times.

The agency also reported 22 volcanic earthquakes from Monday to Tuesday midnight, along with a voluminous plume that rose 900 meters above the summit and drifted southwest. In addition ...

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 ...

Some other examples of igneous intrusions in Scotland can be found at Dumbarton Rock (a volcanic plug in Dumbarton) and Loudoun Hill (a volcanic plug in Ayrshire). Learn more about some of the ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition of magma could ...

Some of the volcanic rocks are up to 6 million years old, while others were left by eruptions that happened as recently as a few thousand years ago, according to the Global Volcanism Program at ...

Archaeologists and climate scientists from the University of Copenhagen can now show that these ritual sacrifices coincided with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout ...

Researchers from the University of Oregon and other institutions have identified an aquifer—a layer of water-saturated rock or sediment—beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The analysis of volcanic ash from the Cumbre Vieja eruption indicates that magma composition, particularly silica content, influences volcanic tremor. High ...