Scientists directly observed a massive underwater volcanic eruption that created new oceanic crust, offering rare insight ...
For most of human history, the creation of new ocean floor has been something inferred rather than witnessed. Geologists ...
Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...
In May 2018, the island of Mayotte, between Madagascar and Mozambique, began to experience a series of earthquakes that led ...
A lava lake is one of the rarest sights in volcanology. Instead of lava spilling away from a vent and cooling across the ...
Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...
Bathymetry of the seafloor around the Southeast Indian Rift where two tectonic plates abruptly opened a portal to the ...
In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt ...
This situation is heating up. One of the world’s most volatile volcanoes is silently refilling with molten rock, sparking fears that this caldera could be getting ready to unleash a torrent of lava, ...
Researchers at the French National Center of Scientific Research have become the first to ...
Seismic data from NASA’s InSight mission reveals a hidden compositional boundary inside Mars that matches what forms inside ...