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magma

[mag-muh] / ˈmæg mə /
NOUN
lava
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Heat from the magma warmed sediments packed with organic material.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

A few hours later, gas-rich magma, 650-800°C in temperature – well above the melting points of lead and zinc – breaks through the fractured surface.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Volcanoes are fed by enormous underground networks of magma and gas, but those systems do not always behave the same way.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

By reconstructing two major eruptions from the volcano's past, the scientists found that magma followed very different routes and moved toward the surface at very different speeds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Worst of all was his head: a helmet of twisted rock and metal with no particular shape—just jagged spikes and pulsing patches of magma.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

"When we analyzed these samples, we found that their gold concentrations are often several times higher than those of comparable magmas from mid-ocean ridges," says Timm.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

He thinks that under the right conditions, similar light isotope ratios could have arisen in magmas interacting with seawater.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024

To be certain, the researchers performed tens of thousands of computer simulations of zircons forming from magmas mixed with seawater, rainwater, or some combination of both.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024

Understanding what went into making TTGs and the magmas they formed from has been difficult, because so many geological processes occurred between their initial melting and ultimate crystallization.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024

Every fresh outburst of volcanic force, and every fresh extrusion of lava, tends to disturb it, and to alter the relations of the interior viscous or molten magmas.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull




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