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“It's like our moonshot. It's going to transform a lot of things,” says Yan Lavallée, a professor of magmatic petrology and volcanology at the Ludwigs-Maximillian University in Munich, and who heads KMT’s science committee.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

Modeling revealed that the zone of hot rock around the magmatic system would require months or even years of cooling before water could flow in.

From Science Magazine • May 27, 2024

Volcanoes are a common feature on the surfaces of solid planets within the solar system, resulting from magmatic activity occurring within the planetary crust.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024

That implies there is some sort of magmatic connection between Svartsengi and Fagradalsfjall—but the nature of that connection is very fuzzy at present.

From National Geographic • Dec. 19, 2023

While their magmatic origin is clear, there is little agreement as to the precise conditions which determined their segregation in the molten rock.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)