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Magma chamber is a reservoir of molten rock material beneath the earth's surface. A magma chamber is connected to the earth's surface by a vent where magma is extruded onto the surface as lava.
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Magma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Magma [from Greek μάγμα, paste] is molten rock that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and may also exist on other terrestrial planets. Besides molten rock, magma may also contain suspended c...
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magma-filled cavity under volcano: an underground cavity that contains magma, often located below a volcano; ... Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. MSN Privacy Legal Advertise...
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; This is a drawing of magma changing chemical composition within the chamber. Click on image for full size version (40K GIF); ... When magma is erupted onto the surface in the form of lava, it becomes silicate rock. On subsequent eruptions of the volcano, magma leaves the chamber composed of slightly different chemicals.
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Magma, rising from lower reaches, gathers in a reservoir, in a weak portion of the overlying rock called the magma chamber. Eventually, but not always, the magma erupts onto the surface.
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A magma chamber is shallow storage chamber for molten rock 1 to 10 km underground. The magma chamber is the immediate origin of material ejected in volcanic eruptions. Magma enters the chamber from an unknown location at depth.
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Scientists aboard the research drilling ship JOIDES Resolution have, for the first time, drilled into a fossil magma chamber under intact ocean crust. ... The borehole into the magma chamber took nearly five months to drill, and required the use of twenty-five hardened steel and tungsten carbide drill bits.
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Lava flows from Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Drillers discovered a magma chamber underground by accident on the Big Island ... They hit a chamber of the magma about a mile and a half down while drilling an injection well. The substance quickly rose about 20 feet up into the drill hole before becoming glasslike as it...
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Drillers looking for geothermal energy in Hawaii have inadvertently put a well right into a magma chamber. ... They are not sure how large the magma chamber is, but some initial testing suggests it may have been put in place by activity from Kilauea in the 1950s, perhaps even the 1920s.
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