[Rockhounds] Fundamental Changes to What We Know About How Volcanoes Work

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Learning something that fundamentally changes how we understand our world
doesn’t happen very often. But for University of California, Santa Barbara
Earth scientist Matthew Jackson and the thousands of volcanologists across
the globe, such a revelation has just occurred.

While sampling magma from the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland, Jackson
and his colleagues uncovered a process far more dynamic than anyone had
assumed in the two centuries that scientists have been studying volcanoes.

“Just when I think we’ve gotten close to figuring out how these volcanoes
work, we get a big surprise,” he said.

Fagradalsfjall is a tuya volcano formed in the Last Glacial Period on the
Reykjanes Peninsula, around 25 miles (40 km) from Reykjavík, Iceland.

The geologists’ findings were published on September 14 in the journal
*Nature*.



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