{"id":3903,"date":"2015-02-23T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2015-02-25T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T23:55:02","slug":"volcanic-metals-hitch-a-ride-on-bubbles-from-earths-crust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/volcanic-metals-hitch-a-ride-on-bubbles-from-earths-crust\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcanic metals hitch a ride on bubbles from Earth\u2019s crust"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During \u00a0a volcanic eruption, massive amounts of sulphur are released into the earth\u2019s atmosphere. Now a new study has looked at the source of the sulphur and its movement.<\/p>\n

The research \u00a0focused on molten rock known as magma which exists deep within the Earth\u2019s crust. This magma contains what is known as \u2018sulphide melts\u2019 – a mix of sulphur and metals such as copper and gold. Because these sulphide melts are dense they were thought to sink rather than rise to the surface.<\/p>\n

In the lab, the authors have shown that sulphide melts can attach to a vapour bubbles and travel upwards. This mechanism could allow for \u00a0the release of massive amounts of sulphur into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in Nature Geoscience\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0February 23<\/strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Jim E. Mungall<\/a><\/span>, University of Toronto, Ontario<\/h4>\n

Tamas Horvath, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut,\u00a0U.S.A.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During \u00a0a volcanic eruption, massive amounts of sulphur are released into the earth\u2019s atmosphere. Now a new study has looked at the source of the sulphur and its movement. The research \u00a0focused on molten rock known as magma which exists deep within the Earth\u2019s crust. This magma contains what is known as \u2018sulphide melts\u2019 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[215,50,2376],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-environment","tag-ontario","tag-volcano"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-10X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3904,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}