Magma is a product of earth processes. To say it has a purpose may be a subjective statement.
**The first question this raises is: what exactly is this "material from the inside"? On our planet, it's magma, fluid molten rock. This material is partially liquid, partially solid and partially gaseous.
magma production around plate boundaries. This interplatevolcanic activity is caused by unusually hot mantle material forming in the lower mantle and pushing up into the upper mantle. The mantle material, which forms a plume shape that is from 500 to 1000 km wide, wells up to create a hot spot under a particular point on the earth. Because of the unusual heat of this mantle material, it melts, forming magma just under the earth's crust. The hot spot itself is stationary; but as a continental plate moves over the spot, the magma will create a string of volcanoes, which die out once they move past the hot spot. The Hawaii volcanoes were created by such a hot spot, which appears to be at least 70 million years old.
So what happens to the magma formed by these processes? We saw that the magma produced at ocean ridges just hardens to form new crust material, and so doesn't produce spewing land volcanoes. There are a few continental ridge areas, where the magma does spew out onto land; but most land volcanoes are produced by subduction zone volcanism and hot spot volcanism.
When the solid rock changes form to a more liquid rock material, it becomes less dense than the surrounding solid rock. Because of this difference in density, the magma pushes upward with great force (for the same reason the helium in a balloon pushes up through the denser surrounding air and oil pushes upward through denser surrounding water). As it pushes up, its intense heat melts some more rock, adding to the magma mixture.
The magma keeps moving through the crust unless its upward pressure is exceeded by the downward pressure of the surrounding solid rock. At this point, the magma collects in magma chambers below the surface of the earth. If the magma pressure rises to a high enough level,or a crack opens up in the crust, the molten rock will spew out at the earths surface.
Of coarse, magma is a melted mixture of rocks.
The three types of magma, named for the rock they form are basaltic, rhyolitic and andesitic. Rhyolitic magma is rich in silica and water vapor.
Magma always flows.
Magma comes out of the volcano...
it is called magma.
When magma and ash cannot leave the mantle fast enough when it has particularly a lot of pressure, a side vent is an alternative way to let out the magma and ash.
An acid magma or a granitic magma.
There is no purpose to volcanoes. Volcanoes are simply areas where magma from the Earth's core branches out to the crust of the Earth where it is contained before pressure makes it burst. Several volcanoe eruptions have caused islands to form, but this is not the direct purpose of a volcanoe; but rather more an odd occurence.
Molten rock under the surface is called "magma". When magma reaches the surface it is called "lava".
magma
This is called the magma chamber.
Magma is a type of molten rock underground. Hope this helps. :)
The Magma Rock is unavailable during normal gameplay - it can only be obtained through the use of a cheating device like the Action Replay. If obtained, it does nothing. In Platinum, its purpose is revealed to be similar to the Red Chain's purpose: to control the legendary of Stark Mountain, Heatran.
When cool magma sinks and warm magma rises, yes that is convection.
magma turns into lava.
Baslatic magma is hotter.
In a magma chamber