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The secret beneath seemingly trustworthy volcanoes

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The secret beneath seemingly trustworthy volcanoes National Science Foundation Geologists working on remote islands in the Galapagos archipelago have found that volcanoes that produce small basaltic lava eruptions hide chemically diverse molten rock in their underground plumbing systems — including some with the potential to generate explosive activity. "I think of these as fugitive magmas," says Dennis Geist, a geologist at the U.S. National Science Foundation and a member of the team. READ MORE

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