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What is a magma chamber?

What is a magma chamber? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) A large underground pool of molten rock lying under the surface of the earth's crust.
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Magmatic processes include inflation or deflation of the magma chamber and fractures filling with magma.
The eruptions cause rapid evacuation of the magma chamber and collapse of the overlying volcano summit.
When magma moves beneath a volcano, such as when the magma chamber fills prior to an eruption, there is swelling of the volcanic cone above.
In the last few years, the volcano grew more seismically active, began inflating in the magma chamber and showed increased geothermal activity.
The typical image that this process invokes is that of a magma chamber with bits and pieces of the enclosing country rock or wall rock floating in the magma.
Layer of impermeable rock that transmits heat from the magma chamber to the aquifer.

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