Sentences with phrase «from supervolcano»

«The magma that originally erupted from the supervolcano had about 1,400 ppm lithium in it,» said Benson, describing a red - hot pyroclastic flow of pumice, ash, crystals, and rock that spread for 50 miles in all directions.

Benson and his colleagues analyzed tiny samples of crystallized magma called melt inclusions taken from supervolcano sites around the world.

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While this area of research is still far from predicting eruptions, Liu said, improving the fundamental understanding of the underlying dynamics of supervolcano formation is key to many future applications of relevant geophysical knowledge.

One of the most prevalent views is that Yellowstone's supervolcano was formed by a vertical column of hot rocks rising from the top of the earth's core, known as a mantle plume.

With knowledge and planning, they say, it's possible to prepare for — or in some cases prevent — rare but devastating natural disasters such as blasts of particles from the sun, collisions with near - Earth asteroids like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, and supervolcanoes that dwarf any eruptions in recorded history.

The University of Utah's Hsin - Hua Huang has solved another mystery from Yellowstone, the site of one of the world's largest supervolcanoes.

A new University of Utah study in the journal Science provides the first complete view of the plumbing system that supplies hot and partly molten rock from the Yellowstone hotspot to the Yellowstone supervolcano.

A Ph.D. student from the University of Texas used an innovative method for analyzing deep seismic waves from large earthquakes to reveal a cylindrical column of hotter - than - normal magma rising from deep below Mexico and surfacing right below the Yellowstone supervolcano, according to a paper published in Nature Geoscience.

Study researcher Dylan Colón, from the University of Oregon, said that other supervolcanoes around the world may also have similar structures.

«But supervolcanoes tend to occur in areas of significant tectonic stress, where plates are moving toward, past or away from each other.