Perched on a hot spot along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the volcano is steadily inflating with magma, raising  the frequency of ...

From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

Volcanoes are among nature’s most powerful forces — breathtaking yet potentially catastrophic. According to a visual produced ...

According to the team's calculations, the motion of the North American continental plate may have sped up by 25% as the ice melted. Between about 12,000 to 6,000 years ago, spreading at the ...

According to the team’s calculations, the motion of the North American continental plate may have sped up by 25% as the ice melted. At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which ...

Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / CDeepSea / University of Bergen / ROV Aegir6000 At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian ... between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain ...

MidOcean Partners (“MidOcean”), a premier New York-based alternative asset manager specializing in middle-market private equity, alternative credit investments and structured equity, announced today ...

Normal faults are typically found at divergent plate boundaries, such as mid-ocean ridges or continental rift zones. Reverse faults, in contrast, form in regions where the crust is being compressed.

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction ... By integrating seismic tomography and plate reconstructions, the researchers linked these geochemical signatures to the subduction ...

The Gofar fault operates much like the San Andreas, in that two tectonic plates slide sideways past ... to see how it connects to the adjacent mid-ocean ridge. We are hopeful that additional ...