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The supply of magma to Kīlauea Volcano was relatively stable for 50 years. But between 2003 and 2007, the volcano experienced a surge in the supply of magma from the mantle that implies short-term changes in the underlying Hawaiian hotspot.

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Figure 1: The magmatic plumbing system at Kīlauea, Hawai'i.

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  1. Matthew Pritchard is in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Snee Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA,

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Pritchard, M. Opening wide the magma spigot. Nature Geosci 5, 238–239 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1439

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