Scientists found living microbes in a 2-billion-year-old rock in South Africa, providing insights into early life on Earth ...

Suzuki and colleagues analyzed a rock sample from the Bushveld Igneous Complex, a rocky intrusion in northeastern South Africa that formed when magma slowly cooled below the Earth’s surface ...

The rock sample was taken from the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), a rocky intrusion in northeastern South Africa which formed when magma slowly cooled below the Earth’s surface. The BIC covers ...

As signals created by earthquakes move through the ground, they are influenced by the structure of a volcano, including the presence of magma and/or fault zones. These structures can cause the ...

The more felsic phases of the plutonic complex intrude the mafic ones, locally forming intrusion breccias. Post-intrusive dacite porphyry dykes fractured the country rocks generating magmatic ...

The Copper Queen project is located within a large plutonic suite of Jurassic age that includes diorites, gabbros, granites, and aplites. The more felsic phases of the plutonic complex intrude the ...

Grimsvotn is not just another volcano; It’s a special beast that captivates both Mafic Maniacs and Caldera Crazies ... Unlike Ioto and Chiles-Cerro Negro, which have longer dormancy periods and lacks ...

Frequent earthquakes associated with volcanic activity can help us understand the magma structures below and the East Rift Zone (ERZ) of Kilauea has proven to be a perfect laboratory recently.

However, this approach might apply to any volcano that erupts mafic (olivine- and pyroxene-rich) magmas, which typically rise rapidly through the crust without pausing for long in ponding zones ...