Michelle Parks, University of Oxford (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

Michelle Parks, University of Oxford

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Michelle Parks gets ready to make some GPS measurements on Santorini. This survey suggests that the chamber of molten rock beneath Santorini’s volcano expanded 10-20 million cubic meters – up to 15 times the size of London’s Olympic Stadium – between January 2011 and April 2012. The growth of this ‘balloon’ of magma has seen the surface of the island rise eight-14 centimeters during this period.

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Becca Neely

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