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The new discovery by geoscientists from the University of Aberdeen provides the strongest evidence yet that some of Scotland’s most iconic islands were born not from a single large volcano, but from a ...

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The work confirms the theory that the pressure applied by heavy ice makes it harder for magma to reach the surface, instead ...

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