The expedition into Iceland's dormant Thrihnukagigur volcano in October charts a chamber shaped like a long-necked bottle, with the neck rising up to the surface of the earth and the massive chamber ...

While researchers say there is no sign of an imminent eruption, the discovery provides a more detailed view of what's going on in the enormous magma chamber that sits beneath the national park.

The findings published January 23 in the journal Nature Geoscience are challenging the idea of what separates an active volcano from ... completely drain a magma chamber. Instead, it will release ...

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 ...

Among them, Crater Lake in Oregon, which has been inactive for 4,800 years, harbors a surprisingly large magma chamber beneath ... bodies of magma beneath every volcano they studied—including ...

Ask any geologist about the magma reservoir ... the top of the chamber and characterizing its contents, the research reveals important insights into the future activity of the volcano at ...

The magma chamber at the heart of the volcano has also collapsed several times in the past, creating a large crater called a caldera. There, sea life thrives off the mineral-rich gases that exit ...

Now, researchers have revealed a new magma chamber growing underneath the Kolumbo volcano. ByJim Dobson, Senior Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights.

Like fortune tellers who peer into a crystal ball for insight, volcanologists at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory peer into the tiny crystals contained in lava flows to learn about the magma ...