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FAQ City: Fact Or Fiction? Local Legend Says Concord, NC, Is Built Atop Volcano

Editor's note: A version of this story was originally published in January 2020. For years, people in Concord have heard a tale that the city is built on an ancient volcano that once spewed molten ...
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Volcanic super eruptions are millions of years in the making – followed by swift surge, scientists find

Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth’s crust, ...
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GSA Bulletin highlights: New research posted Sept. 2, 2011

Boulder, CO, USA - Highlights for GSA Bulletin articles published online 2 September 2011 are provided below. Locations studied in the latest posting include the Buckskin Gulch slot canon in Utah, USA ...
Nature

On the conditions of magma mixing and its bearing on andesite production in the crust

Mixing between magmas is thought to affect a variety of processes, from the growth of continental crust to the triggering of volcanic eruptions, but its thermophysical viability remains unclear. Here, ...
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Tectonic Evolution of the Western Margin of Gondwana Inferred from Syntectonic Emplacement of Paleozoic Granitoid Plutons in Northwest Argentina

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Abstract The Cerro Durazno, Brealito, and Cobres granitoid plutons belong to the eastern Ordovician magmatic belt of northwest Argentina and ...
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FAQ City: Fact Or Fiction? Local Legend Says Concord, NC, Is Built Atop Ancient Volcano

Concord, North Carolina, roughly located in the purple shape on this map showing rock formations in the Carolinas, is said to be on an ancient volcano. Geologists help set the record straight. For ...