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.

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of ...

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 ...

The beach at Pohoiki grew rapidly in the year following the 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kīlauea and has continued to evolve since. The boat ramp was cut off from the ocean, and local warm ...

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 ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures ...

Spencer Jiang scored a game-high four goals, powering Ridge to a 15-3 victory over Ocean City in Basking Ridge. Back above .500 at 5-4 on the season, Ridge took a commanding 10-0 lead at the half ...

At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the North American and Eurasian plates, may have increased by as much as 40%. “As ice volume was greatly reduced, it ...