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Fancy a journey to the centre of the Earth? Iceland is on the job

The "Krafla Magma Testbed" team hopes to drill into the Krafla volcano magma chamber. Unlike the lava spewed above ground, the molten rock beneath the surface remains a mystery.

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Iceland s journey to the centre of the Earth

With its large crater lake of turquoise water, plumes of smoke and sulphurous bubbling of mud and gases, the Krafla volcano is one of Iceland's most awe-inspiring natural wonders. In the country's northeast, a team of international researchers is preparing to drill two kilometres (1.2 miles) into the heart of the volcano, a Jules Verne-like project aimed at creating the

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Forget oil or water In Iceland, well diggers seek to tap a volcano s magma

Forget oil or water In Iceland, well diggers seek to tap a volcano s magma
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Surprise magma pocket found in Iceland hints at more ticking time bombs

Surprise magma pocket found in Iceland hints at more ticking time bombs Robin George Andrews © Photograph by ARCTIC IMAGES, Alamy Stock Photo Krafla volcanic eruption. Scientists, curious as to what sort of magma this was, got their hands on some of this quenched stuff and found that it was not only gloopy, explosive-prone matter, but that it also matched up with magma from the 1724 eruption of Iceland’s Krafla volcano. That means that magma had been down there for three centuries and no geophysical technique had spotted it and in Iceland, home to more volcanologists per thousand people than anywhere else, it should have been spotted.

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Hidden pockets of potentially explosive magma lurk around volcanoes

These secret pockets of magma can’t be detected and are potential lava bombs.

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