Browne will present on his project, “Probing the subvolcanic magma plumbing systems of continental and oceanic basaltic volcanoes, examples from Medicine Lake volcano and the Axial Seamount.” ...

Basalt, the dominant volcanic rock along the Pacific Ocean's "Ring of Fire," is considered a melting product of the Earth's mantle. On the left is vesicular basalt, in which dissolved gases formed ...

Capturing and storing carbon dioxide will be critical to avoiding the worst impacts of ...

Geoscientists have long thought that water -- along with shallow magma stored in Earth's crust -- drives volcanoes to erupt. Now, thanks to newly developed research tools, scientists have learned that ...

Volcanoes are grouped into four types: cinder cones, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes and lava volcanoes. Cinder cones are circular or oval cones made up of small fragments of lava from a single ...

Organ Pipes is one of the smallest national parks in Victoria, and the basalt volcanic columns are truly magnificent.