When a dike reaches the surface, it often erupts as a linear curtain of lava, as several recent eruptions on the Island of Hawaii have demonstrated. As dikes form in a rift zone, they wedge the ...

Last month, Graham Mertz and Chimere Dike sat in an Indianapolis hotel room, wondering how in the heck they reached this moment. The two close friends, who met at Wisconsin in 2020 and reunited on ...