article_snippet: But geologist Professor Jeff Karson and artist Professor Bob Wysocki from Syracuse University in New York found that the results can be far more spectacular.
article_snippet: Using a lava furnace to heat gravel to temperatures of more than 1,100°C (2,000°F)
article_snippet: geologist Professor Jeff Karson and artist Professor Bob Wysocki from Syracuse University in New York were able to pour a lava furnace onto a slab of ice to produce a seething, bubbling mass of molten rock.
article_snippet: Professor Karson, who has been pouring lava in a series of experiments to better understand how it behaves and forms geological formations, described it as 'scrambled eggs from hell'.
article_snippet: Professor Karson and Professor Wysocki have together set up the Lava Project at Syracuse University's department of Earth Sciences to study how lava behaves in different situations.
article_snippet: Professor Karson and Professor Wysocki create lava by melting basalt gravel in a giant gas fired furnace and then pouring furnace over sand, ice and through water.
article_snippet: The team used a specially created lava furnace to heat basaltic gravel to temperatures of more than 1,100°C .
article_snippet: Professor Jeff Karson (left) and Professor Bob Wysocki (right) have been studying how lava flows behave .
highlights_snippet: The experiment was conducted by geologists at Syracuse University, NY .
  
highlights_snippet: geologists at Syracuse University, NY created a lava furnace where geologists at Syracuse University, NY can melt basaltic gravel into lava .