In rocky planets such as Earth and Mars, the oxidation state of the mantle is thought to strongly influence the melting temperature of mantle materials (i.e., magma generation), the composition of ...

The moon may have formed after a giant Mars-size rock hit a magma-covered newborn Earth, a new study finds. Earth came together about 4.5 billion years ago, and previous research suggested the moon ...

Researchers found that a magma's thermal history may be a key factor in determining whether an eruption becomes more vigorous ...

Scientists have shed light on a thermal process in magma that may help explain why similar volcanic systems can produce very ...

Scientists have shed light on a thermal process in magma that may help explain why similar volcanic systems can produce very ...

Researchers investigate the effects of oxygen content on the melting of mantle rocks and the formation of early Earth magma It is widely accepted that the early Earth largely consisted of molten magma ...

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 ...

Magmatic systems within the continental crust often record complex interactions between chemically distinct magmas. In granitoid batholiths, injections of mafic to intermediate magma into evolving ...