microrobert
08-01-2013, 01:37 PM
Magma Zoomed Along 'Highway from Hell' in Costa Rican Volcano Eruption
Costa Rican volcano Irazú has rocked researchers after evidence of its eruption in the 1960s indicated it spewed magma up from the bowels of Earth in only a few months, rather than the centuries it takes for the same thing to happen in other volcanoes.
The study published in the journal (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7460/full/nature12342.html)Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7460/full/nature12342.html) is the latest to suggest that deep, hot magma can zoom along a "highway from hell" and set off an eruption fairly quickly.
"If we had had seismic instruments in the area at the time we could have seen these deep magmas coming," said the study's lead author, Philipp Ruprecht, a volcanologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "We could have had an early warning of months, instead of days or weeks."
Magma Zoomed Along 'Highway from Hell' in Costa Rican Volcano Eruption : Environment : Nature World News (http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/3271/20130731/magma-zoomed-along-highway-hell-costa-rican-volcano-eruption.htm)
Costa Rican volcano Irazú has rocked researchers after evidence of its eruption in the 1960s indicated it spewed magma up from the bowels of Earth in only a few months, rather than the centuries it takes for the same thing to happen in other volcanoes.
The study published in the journal (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7460/full/nature12342.html)Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7460/full/nature12342.html) is the latest to suggest that deep, hot magma can zoom along a "highway from hell" and set off an eruption fairly quickly.
"If we had had seismic instruments in the area at the time we could have seen these deep magmas coming," said the study's lead author, Philipp Ruprecht, a volcanologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "We could have had an early warning of months, instead of days or weeks."
Magma Zoomed Along 'Highway from Hell' in Costa Rican Volcano Eruption : Environment : Nature World News (http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/3271/20130731/magma-zoomed-along-highway-hell-costa-rican-volcano-eruption.htm)