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

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

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

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

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

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

"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." ...