Sentences with phrase «flow under that crust»

Hot liquid lava continues to flow under that crust, and if most of it flows out, a hollow tube remains.

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Once the ice melted, the crust began to slowly rebound and the mantle material to flow back under the now - iceless area.

But that pressure increase was transferred through those spongelike channels in the lower crust down into the subterranean water chamber, so the increased pressure continuously accelerated the water flowing out from under each hydroplate.

Tubes form in one of two ways: either by the crusting over of lava channels, or from pāhoehoe flows where the lava is moving under the surface.