The video shows an area in Antarctica where rocky outcroppings jut up above the ice sheet. The building is a South African research station.

Earth bubbles and broils beneath an underwater peak called Axial Seamount, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off Oregon's coast, causing it to swell in changing patterns that hint at impending strife ...

ISLA: Traprain Law is an unusual igneous intrusion called a laccolith. Igneous intrusions form when molten rock, or magma, from deep underground pushes up towards the Earth’s surface but cools ...

From Greenland to central New South Wales If the magma cools and crystallizes in the crust, it can form rocks containing high ...

What the rover found was soil composed mostly of an igneous rock called anorthosite. The Lunar Magma Ocean hypothesis suggests that the moon’s mantle — the layer above the metallic core and ...

I have on-going projects to study: Processes in intrusions: How big are magma chambers? How do igneous cumulates form? What processes occur in magma chambers? For example, is compaction or porous ...

Researchers used seismic waves to identify magma chambers beneath the surface of six volcanoes of various sizes and dormancy within the Cascade Range, which includes half of the U.S. volcanoes ...

The rock comes from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in northeastern South ... formation came into existence 2 billion years ago when magma rose from the underground mantle to cool and solidify.

The origin and evolution of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Emphasis will be on physical and chemical processes, magma transport and crystallization, phase equilibria, development of metamorphic facies ...

Theoretical modeling provides additional valuable constraints on the interpretation of igneous rocks. Petrographic study coupled with laboratory analysis provides the data necessary to estimate the ...

Areas of expertise My research concerns the generation, movement and evolution of magma within the Earth. I use a combination of igneous petrology, high temperature and pressure experimental , ...