As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...

New research suggests Europe and North America may still be geologically connected via Iceland—challenging everything we ...

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.

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

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

The simulation especially focused on the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge - the area where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet. That feature runs through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and ...

The scientists discovered that this global thaw may have also had unexpected consequences—including for plate tectonics, or the internal ... spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits ...

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

The scientists discovered that this global thaw may have also had unexpected consequences—including for plate tectonics ... spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which sits between the ...