Antarctic
Lava Lake Churns in the
Coldest Place on Earth
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** 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.
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