Giant Balloon Of Magma Inflates Under Santorini

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Nea Kameni, Santorini caldera, Greece. Photo source: NASA

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The chamber of molten rock beneath Santorini’s volcano expanded 10-20 million cubic metres – up to 15 times the size of London’s Olympic Stadium, between January 2011 and April 2012, according to a new survey carried out by an international team led by Oxford University and including a scientist from the University of Bristol…

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