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 ...

Now, Yellowstone's magma is on the move ... "The locus of future rhyolitic [igneous rock] volcanism has shifted to north-east Yellowstone caldera," according to the team, which was led by Ninfa ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 , ...

Volcanic rock is formed when lava or magma cools down and becomes a solid. We call this type of rock igneous rock. Here are three different types of igneous rock from the Museum’s collection.