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04-23-2014, 11:30 PM
Antarctic Lava Lake Churns in the Coldest Place on Earth
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The coldest place on Earth is also one of the rare spots where a roiling lava lake offers a window into the heart of a volca**.
At Erebus volca** (http://www.livescience.com/31434-antarctic-volca**-insides-imaged.html) in Antarctica, a long-lived lava lake puffs steam and launches lava bombs at scientists who scale its slopes, hoping to unravel the mysteries of how volca**es work. (Lava bombs are flying blobs of molten rock.)
"We think lava lakes are really the top of a magma chamber, so by studying lava lakes we can see what's happening in the guts of the volca**," said Philip Kyle, a volca**logist at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, who has visited Erebus since the late 1960s. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/23/antarctic-lava-lake-erebus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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The coldest place on Earth is also one of the rare spots where a roiling lava lake offers a window into the heart of a volca**.
At Erebus volca** (http://www.livescience.com/31434-antarctic-volca**-insides-imaged.html) in Antarctica, a long-lived lava lake puffs steam and launches lava bombs at scientists who scale its slopes, hoping to unravel the mysteries of how volca**es work. (Lava bombs are flying blobs of molten rock.)
"We think lava lakes are really the top of a magma chamber, so by studying lava lakes we can see what's happening in the guts of the volca**," said Philip Kyle, a volca**logist at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, who has visited Erebus since the late 1960s. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/23/antarctic-lava-lake-erebus/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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