The magma bubbles up through the crust, ultimately bursting to the surface and forming volcanic eruptions.

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Normally, this would result in unseemly blisters bursting out all over a wafer's surface.

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Dr Malin and Dr Edgett suggest that the gullies are being created by water that is either seeping slowly to the surface or building up behind barriers of ice and occasionally bursting through.

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