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Like fortune tellers who peer into a crystal ball for insight, volcanologists at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory peer into the tiny crystals contained in lava flows to learn about the magma’s ...

Arianna Morfin, a Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists Community College Internships program student, is part of a team studying olivine, an important mineral for carbon storage and a ...

Mushroom-shaped crystal growth pattern in Chang'e-5 lunar samples Photo: Courtesy of Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, ...

Different minerals crystallize at different temperatures in igneous rocks. If there is a residual amount of silica in the magma, and assuming that the temperature drops, the olivine crystals react ...