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December 24th

EARTH Magazine: AGU: Aloha, magma! Geothermal engineers drill into surprising lava: SAN FRANCISCO ? While drilling deep into Earth, geothermal engineers struck geological gold, opening a never-before-s een window into a classic geologic process: how basalt magma becomes granite. The find, they announced at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Tuesday, could amount to the first magma observatory on Earth. - ?If we had hit molten basalt it would not be a big surprise,? Teplow said. But the magma they encountered wasn?t basalt.

December 17th

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Drillers break into magma chamber: "This is unprecedented; this is the first time a magma has been found in its natural habitat," [...] the drillers were shocked - not only to hit magma but to also hit such a big heat source at the relatively shallow depth of 2.5km. [...] The breakthrough was made in 2005. Only now are researchers confident enough about their work to discuss the details publicly.

June 2nd

Untitled Document: Whereas basalt forms a'a and pahoehoe surface forms, andesite generally produces blocky lava. Here, the surface contains smooth-sided, angular fragments (blocks) that are not as splintery or vesicular as a'a lava fragments.

November 21st

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