The lava that buried entire neighborhoods during the 2018 Kīlauea eruption was composed of nearly 80% gas bubbles near its source. A recent study shows that those bubbles played a central role in controlling how fast and far the lava traveled and that lava flow models need to account for bubbles...

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-07-reveals-gas-klauea-lava.html)

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