New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center ...

A fishing village in southwest Iceland was evacuated Tuesday after lava began spewing from a volcanic eruption, the eighth to ...

The split between South America and Africa 135 million years ago was a fiery affair, new research finds. The continental breakup spewed over 3.8 million cubic miles (16 million cubic kilometers) of ...

In addition, the diving plate melts and is often spewed out in volcanic eruptions such ... process renews the ocean floor and widens the giant basins. A single mid-ocean ridge system connects ...

A fishing village in southwest Iceland was evacuated Tuesday after a series of earthquakes signalled a volcanic eruption could ...

Referred to as a land of ice and fire for its many glaciers and volcanoes, the North Atlantic island nation has now seen 11 eruptions ... sits astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the Eurasian ...

Iceland's famous Blue Lagoon spa also closed after the Sundhnjukagigar volcano started spouting lava on Tuesday and the ...

It is located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a fault in the ocean floor that separates the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates and causes earthquakes and eruptions.