Learn how subduction zones become enriched in gold through repeated melting of Earth's mantle.

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Learn how Mount Etna stands apart from most volcanoes, having been formed by pockets of magma held in Earth's upper mantle.

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Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale ...

A spectacular proof of our planet's activity, calderas are huge topographic depressions, similar to flat-bottomed craters, with a diameter of several tens of kilometres. They are formed by large ...

Scientists have shown how the freezing of a 'slushy' ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon's crust. Scientists have shown how the freezing of a 'slushy' ocean of magma may ...

Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale ...