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New view of Mount Rainiers volcanic plumbing | #Geology #GeologyPage By measuring how fast Earth conducts electricity and seismic waves, a University of Utah researcher and colleagues made a detailed picture of Mount Rainiers deep volcanic plumbing and partly molten rock that will erupt again someday. This is the most direct image yet capturing the melting process that feeds magma into a crustal reservoir that eventually is tapped for eruptions, says geophysicist Phil Wannamaker, of the universitys Energy & Geoscience Institute and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Read more : geologypage/2014/07/new-view-of-mount-rainiers-volcanic.html Geology Page geologypage
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +0000

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