Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

This geographical phenomenon, known as the Eastern African Rift (EARS), is believed to have initiated around 22 million years ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures ...

The sprawling retreat is perched high on a ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and it comes with a guesthouse and an ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice ...