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Deep Magma Matters: Volcanic Eruptions More Complex And Harder To Predict

Published on Friday, 10 October 2008 05:00 from ScienceDaily

New research by a team of US and UK scientists into volcanoes has found that they function in a far more complex way than previously thought, making future eruptions even harder to predict. Although the Soufrière Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat exhibits cycles of eruption and quiet, magma is continuously supplied from deep in the crust but that a valve acts below a shallower magma chamber, releasing lava to the surface periodically.

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