How is magma classified? What keeps magma hot? Where does magma that fills the magma chamber come from? How was the Kilauea volcano created? How does a fissure volcano form? What is the main difference between lava and magma? How are composite volcanoes formed? How do extrusive igneous rocks...
How does magma turn into extrusive igneous rock? How are volcanoes created by tectonic plate movement? How is magma generated along convergent plate boundaries? How do landforms from magma form and become exposed? In what ways can magma be generated from solid rock?
How Volcanoes Are Created Deep beneath the Earth's surface in the mantle, many rocks exist in liquid form on account of the extreme heat and pressure. This melted rock, called magma, sometimes heads toward the surface when there are cracks in the crust. These cracks tend to be located in...
Tourmaline can also be created by the metamorphic process. In this case, the gem occurs as veins in a schist or marble, two types of metamorphic rocks that are created from pre-existing rocks. In this less common scenario, the key geological force is not hot magma, but rather the geologic...
When magma reaches the surface, it is called lava. As lava cools and hardens into volcanic rock, it forms a solid mountain of lava. Every time a volcano erupts, pouring lava over the surface, it adds to the body of the volcano. Not all volcanoes form in the same way. The viscosity ...
This gas is under very high confining pressure because the magma is below Earth's surface. During the formation of a maar, the rock above the magma chamber is usually blasted away. This suddenly reduces the confining pressure on the magma and its dissolved gas. The sudden pressure reduction ...
magma and often contain very large and rare crystalsand minerals. Like other rare minerals that are found in Myanmar, such as painstone, the kyawthuite probably formed as a result of the intense heat and pressure created during the cataclysmic collision between Asia and India during the ...
magma ocean in the Earth’s early history with low viscosity. Less viscous magma led to the rapid separation of the crystals suspended within it, a process often referred to as fractional crystallization. That created a mix of different chemistry within the magma, rather than a uniform ...
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forming magma just under the earth's crust. The hot spot itself is stationary; but as a continental plate moves over the spot, the magma will create a string of volcanoes, which die out once they move past the hot spot. The Hawaii volcanoes were created by such a hot spot, which appea...