Silica is a key component of sand but also of lava. The less there is, the more fluid the lava, and the faster it flows. Nyiragongo has some of the lowest-silica-content-lava on the planet, but ...
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The Earth Has a Secret Past—Here’s What Scientists Discovered Deep Inside the Planet’s Mantle
Deep within Earth’s mantle, scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that traces of the planet’s early form,proto-Earth, ...
You pronounce her name Vahl-bohn-uh Mehmeh-tee, not Val-bone Mem-meeti. It’s from Italian, by way of Albania. “I’ve been `Vali’ since kindergarten, so you can call me that,” Valbone “Vali” Memeti says ...
Artistic illustration of the internal structure of a lava planet in a cold state, showing a day‑side magma ocean overlain by a mineral atmosphere. The arrows indicate the direction of heat transport ...
Update 6/15/18 at 4:30 p.m. EST: Per the USGS: University of Hawaii at Hilo scientists, who are conducting chemical analysis of the lava, said the olivine they're seeing in eruptive products does not ...
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