Lava isn't like water, snow or mud. It's liquid rock, so it's heavy, sticky and moving underground. It's also nearly 2,000 degrees.

What happens when lava and water meet? Explosive experiments with manmade lava are helping to answer this important question. By cooking up 10-gallon batches of molten rock and injecting them with ...

She thinks one reason no explosion occurred was because the lava was moving so slowly — centimeters per second — that it was able to react with the water in a “kinder, gentler” manner. “If you’re ...

Lava fountains then feed lava flows. After journeying through Kilauea’s East Rift Zone, lava meets water again as the flow enters the ocean. Underwater, lava changes its appearance, forming lava ...

Non-explosive lava–water interaction in Skaelingar, Iceland and the formation of subaerial lava pillars. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research , 2013; 264: 36 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores ...

But if the lava lake levels drop too far below the water table, then water in the suddenly non-magma adjacent areas would have an opportunity to inch closer into the cooling areas.

When lava meets water, amazing chemical reactions take place. Today we''re going to see how land is created, for the top five lava VS water videos.

Comparison of images of Martian channels to lava flows in Hawaii indicates that lava, not water, may have been the creative force behind at least some of the channels, according to a NASA researcher.

The latest eruption broke out around 6 a.m. local time Thursday northeast of Mount Sýlingarfell, spewing lava fountains roughly 260 feet in the air and giving rise to a nearly 2-mile volcanic plume.

Lava lamps aren’t meant to be opened. But if you do pop off the cap, you’ll find paraffin wax, water, and chemicals that help the wax rise and fall.

Lava fountains then feed lava flows. After journeying through Kilauea’s East Rift Zone, lava meets water again as the flow enters the ocean. Underwater, lava changes its appearance, forming lava ...