Compositions of melt contained within quartz crystals provide evidence that Yellowstone's Huckleberry Ridge supereruption was sourced from a number of isolated magma reservoirs. Collections of ...

Such research could provide insights into geological processes such as magma crystallization, they say. Growing into fluid-filled cavities, natural quartz crystals typically form prismatic ...

In the same way tree rings record climate change, quartz crystals found in magma are a useful tool in helping researchers learn more about the changes that take place as a supervolcano primes ...

A microscopic analysis of quartz crystals from an ancient California ... "The evolution of a giant, super-eruption-feeding magma body is characterized by events taking place at a variety of ...