The difference between magma and lava Related stories. Following the volcanic eruption in La Palma, geologist Eduardo Suárez of Spain’s National Geographic Institute explained the difference.

This followed a dramatic Monday, which saw a midday blast propel volcanic material 18 kilometres (11 miles) into the sky, and an evening burst that spewed lava and sent volcanic ash as high as 13 ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

When magma erupts from a volcano it is called lava. This mixture of lava and gas flows out and down the sides of a volcano, some may cool and erupt as ash. Image caption, ...

When the magma is runny, like at Kīlauea, the fountains might go from a thousand feet tall to a few tens of feet as the viscosity gets higher, usually due to cooling. However, the stickier magma at ...

We propose that this difference results from the greater depth of the magma cavity underneath these volcanos. This suggests that while some of our findings might be applicable elsewhere, each ...

When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...

A once long-dormant volcano in Iceland is erupting again and impacting activity in a populated region nearby. The volcano, on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, began erupting at ...