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Studying Geoscience with Cereal?
November 15th, 2022
Students in Helen Haskell's Geoscience class spent a week learning about magma bodies. They built their own Froot Loops magma chamber, modeling how the chemistry of a magma body can change, resulting in different rock formations and different volcanic eruptions.
They've been learning about New Mexico's own magma body, the Socorro Magma Body, the world's second-largest, nestled about 12 miles below the community of Socorro. Scientists are studying the composition and activity of the magma to determine what kind of eruption could occur.
For more information on the impacts of this magma body, here's an article published by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology.
