How to Use magma in a Sentence

magma

noun

• Earthquakes can give you an idea of just how deep the magma might be.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
• This is the process that generates the magma that comes to the surface in the form of lava.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• So the caldera could be primed to flood with magma and blow in a human lifetime.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 13 Oct. 2017
• The magma below the park is close to the surface, creating the hot springs above.
  — Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine, 24 June 2022
• That day, another noisy flow of magma left the sill and overfilled the dike.
  — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• And the ground began to deform, likely due to flows of magma.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2021
• Also, the event might have been triggered by the fact that magma is draining from the summit in the first place.
  — Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 2 July 2009
• The result: less magma at the top to buoy up lava reservoirs.
  — Author: Scott Wilson, Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2018
• The quakes are one side effects of the erupting volcano as magma makes its way up to the surface.
  — USA TODAY, 7 May 2018
• But people were warned to stay away because of the risk from noxious fumes and hot magma.
  — Morgan Coates, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022
• And in places where the crust split, Martian magma erupted out of fissures.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2021
• Mid-ocean ridges—gaps in the Earth's crust on the seafloor—leak magma into the ocean, which then hardens and is pushed out of the way by more magma.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2018
• Auckland City has 53 volcanic vents that are all linked to the same boiling pot of magma.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
• Many of those might have been phreatic - that is, steam driven - rather than caused by magma.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2024
• Once released from the volcano, the magma is called lava.
  — Rachel Beane, The Conversation, 1 May 2023
• Whether the plume could cause magma to rise in a vertical stream is still unclear, the researchers added.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2018
• That's because there have been signs that the magma beneath it has been cooling.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Iceland sits over a volcanic hotspot, where magma comes close to the surface.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• While the red tongue of lava lolled off the coast, the two open vents of the volcano continued to belch up more magma from below.
  — Daniel Roca and Joseph Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2021
• These extreme vibrations may have forced more magma than usual out of the cracks in the seafloor.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2018
• The heat around these plumes thins Earth’s crust above, creating cracks and sending out spurts of magma.
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• Gloeocapsa magma is a type of algae that grows on your roof and tends to look like black stains or streaks.
  — Brett Dvoretz, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• The danger of the magma moving under the ground and building up in the volcano was the most pressing concern.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• Since the magma didn’t have to move far to erupt, the warning signals came at the last minute, according to Science News.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• In the days before the eruption, earthquakes occurred as the magma rose closer to the surface.
  — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2021
• At this time, the fledgling planet is believed to have had a crust of graphite, floating over a deep magma ocean.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
• In fact, the tremors could ultimately be traced back to the eruption of a huge magma chamber in the region.
  — Daniel Lingenhöhl, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
• The magma rising from the Earth's mantle flows easily and doesn't hold much gas.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2018
• The new find adds detail to the horror that unfolded early morning on the second day of the eruption, after most of the magma had erupted.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• When in this pool, the magma melted the crustal rocks around it, which contained minute amounts of water, carbon dioxide and other gases, in addition to rhenium.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024