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  2. Volcanic gas - Wikipedia

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    The gas released at the surface has a composition that is a mass-flow average of the magma exsolved at various depths and is not representative of the magma conditions at any one depth. Molten rock (either magma or lava) near the atmosphere releases high-temperature volcanic gas (>400 °C).

  3. Magma - Wikipedia

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    Magma consists of liquid rock that usually contains suspended solid crystals. [14] As magma approaches the surface and the overburden pressure drops, dissolved gases bubble out of the liquid, so that magma near the surface consists of materials in solid, liquid, and gas phases.

  4. Magma chamber - Wikipedia

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    Magma chambers above a subducting plate. Magma rises through cracks from beneath and across the crust because it is less dense than the surrounding rock. When the magma cannot find a path upwards it pools into a magma chamber. These chambers are commonly built up over time, [4] [5] by successive horizontal [6] or vertical [7] magma injections

  5. Volcano - Wikipedia

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    A volcano needs a reservoir of molten magma (e.g. a magma chamber), a conduit to allow magma to rise through the crust, and a vent to allow the magma to escape above the surface as lava. [16] The erupted volcanic material (lava and tephra) that is deposited around the vent is known as a volcanic edifice , typically a volcanic cone or mountain.

  6. Volcanism - Wikipedia

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    Any gas that has exsolved from the magma easily escapes even before it reaches the surface. However, in viscous magmas, gases remain trapped in the magma even after they have exsolved, forming bubbles inside the magma. These bubbles enlarge as the magma nears the surface due to the dropping pressure, and the magma grows substantially.

  7. How the Mauna Loa Eruption Could Help Scientists ... - AOL

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    From better understanding how magma moves through a volcano to watching earthquake reactions to creating better models of potential lava flows, the work has already begun for scientists like ...

  8. Volatile (astrogeology) - Wikipedia

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    To understand how the magma behaves rising to the surface, the role of solubility within the magma must be known. An empirical law has been used for different magma-volatiles combination. For instance, for water in magma the equation is n=0.1078 P where n is the amount of dissolved gas as weight percentage (wt%), P is the pressure in megapascal ...

  9. Volcanic crater - Wikipedia

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    It is typically a bowl-shaped feature containing one or more vents. During volcanic eruptions, molten magma and volcanic gases rise from an underground magma chamber, through a conduit, until they reach the crater's vent, from where the gases escape into the atmosphere and the magma is erupted as lava. A volcanic crater can be of large ...