If you thought lava was primed to erupt, you might be surprised to find out how it really works.
Son one of the most spectacular and prodigious phenomena of nature and recently we have suffered it in our country. Volcanoes populate the world and show us the power of destruction that lies dormant under our feet. You may be interested in knowing the 6 main volcanoes in Spain or the most active volcanoes in the world, but what we are convinced is that you will be interested in knowing that the rashes are not as you imagine.
The magma does not behave as we might intuit at first
Although the explanation is not as simple as we would like, we will summarize the most important thing that has been published in the prestigious journal Science Advances. In this case, the study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London has shown that the rising magma towards the surface of the Earth, doesn’t always make it by the way what is supposed to be faster. This is why research is really important to begin to understand why some volcanoes are more active than others.
Liquid hot magma flowing from a volcano in Iceland
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The first thing to understand is that the volcanoes they can form through movements in tectonic plates. In that case, one plate would be under another, which would cause the last one to sink, releasing, among other elements, the well-known magma. For to know the route of this infernal liquidresearchers have used seismometer located on the seabed in a subduction zone, where the plates sink, in the eastern Caribbean. The waves generated by earthquakes and if they accelerate or slow down passing through different materials.
He magma es able to absorb waveswith what might identify with ease the places I used to go, creating a three-dimensional model of the interior of that area. The discovery that he left them speechless meant knowing that the absorption zones moved laterally under the volcanoes. Stephen Hickslead author of the study, affirms in it medio Interesting Engineeringwhat:
Some scientists believed that the sagging plate controlled where the volcanoes are, and others thought that the upper plate had the most weight. In our study, we have shown that the play between the two plates over millions of years is key to controlling where eruptions occur today.
