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Lava provides window on early Earth


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user posted image rResearchers at Harvard and the University of Hawaii believe they’ve resolved a long-standing controversy over the roots of islands — volcanoes in the middle of tectonic plates — showing that the islands’ lava provides a window into the early Earth’s makeup.

Assistant Professor of Geochemistry Sujoy Mukhopadhyay and Helge Gonnermann at the University of Hawaii ran sophisticated computer models examining changes in gases dissolved in magma as they rise from the mantle through the Earth’s crust.

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