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magmatic

  • a word derived from magma.

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"It offers critical insights into how stress evolves in volcanic systems, guiding our ability to anticipate and interpret future earthquakes and magmatic events."

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

“It's like our moonshot. It's going to transform a lot of things,” says Yan Lavallée, a professor of magmatic petrology and volcanology at the Ludwigs-Maximillian University in Munich, and who heads KMT’s science committee.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

Modeling revealed that the zone of hot rock around the magmatic system would require months or even years of cooling before water could flow in.

From Science Magazine • May 27, 2024

"These new findings emphasize the significance of studies on high-pressure minerals in lunar materials and the special nature of lunar magmatic evolution," the authors conclude in their abstract.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2024

In many cases the result is clearly due to a combination of recrystallization of materials already present and introduction of minerals by magmatic solutions from without.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)