By comparison, the temperature of crustal fluids can reach 400 degrees C at hydrothermal vents in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where tectonic plates are diverging and new oceanic crust is being formed.

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 ...

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 ...

Learn about the escalating threat of volcanoes in Iceland and how a new warning system is helping to inform the public when ...

Pressure from a pool of magma has just cracked solid rock, creating a volcano-tectonic ... of tectonic plates at plate boundaries, such as the San Andreas fault and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge).

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

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 ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.” ...

These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge ... 3,200 kilometres from the nearest plate boundary. This is explained by the ...

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line ... thaw may have also had unexpected consequences—including for plate tectonics, or the internal clockwork that has, for billions of ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely ... spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian ...