Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

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

The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in ...

a mid-ocean ridge that extends along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean southern Europe There are however some important exceptions. The Hawaiian Islands, which are entirely volcanic in origin ...

The volcanic rocks they studied should have ... similar ancient zircon populations in unexpected places—like mid-ocean ridges and remote hotspot islands including Hawai’i and the Galápagos.

“Ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica are still melting,” Yuan said. “We think the ice melting could enhance seafloor spreading and volcanism at nearby mid-ocean ridges in the future.” ...