Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Lead author Nick Mortimer noted the scale of magma eruptions across Zealandia ... Rock samples from Fairway Ridge near New Caledonia revealed granite formations belonging to a 4,000 km-long geological ...

From petrified forests to a fiery crater burning for 50+ years, these eight geological phenomena reveal Earth's mysterious forces.

Researchers found a unique seismic signal just before the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, ...

Researchers studying carbon emissions from ancient volcanoes are exploring the geology of large dikes, such as this one in ...

The eruptions of Mount Merapi in 2010 were primarily driven by the movement of magma within the volcano, which led to the release of volcanic gases, ash, and pyroclastic flows. The geological and ...

Some of this magma can leak to the surface in eruptions, but there are less likely long-term consequences that have historical analogues. The eruption in and near Napau Crater on September 15–20 is an ...

Iceland is one of the world's most volcanically active places I'm in one of the world's volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano. A short distance away I can see the rim of ...

Phreatic eruptions are steam-driven explosions that occur when water beneath the ground or on the surface is heated by magma, lava, hot rocks, or new volcanic deposits, according to PHIVOLCS. Taal ...