Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

A remote volcano in Russia’s far east has roared back to life in spectacular fashion, unleashing two violent explosions ...

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UnsplashCarbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions ...

It has been thought that plate tectonics were a significant factor in the shaping of our planet and the evolution of life. Mars and Venus don't experience such movements of crustal plates, but then ...

"Awakening after a decade of slumber." Scientists issue warning that hidden 'ice volcanoes' could awaken: 'Talking about ...

The Ring of Fire is an enormous belt of active and dormant volcanoes that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. It runs from southern Chile, up the west coast of the Americas, through the islands off ...

Scientists say they've discovered a 400-mile chain of extinct and fossilized volcanoes beneath southern China. The volcanoes, the researchers claim, were likely formed when two major tectonic plates ...

"Reprint from pure and applied geophysics (PAGEOPH), volume 164 (2007), no. 4"-- T.p. verso. Deformation and gravity change: indicators of isostasy, tectonics, volcanism and climate change: ...

Volcanoes in Alaska, Washington state, Oregon and Hawaii have been rumbling and even spewing lava, enough to spark a swarm of news stories. But despite the jolts and temblors, geologists say there's ...

Deep below the Earth's surface, magma is churning and flowing into the Axial Seamount, an underwater shield volcano about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon. As the volcano grows and tremors increase, ...

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic plates collided during the breakup of Rodinia, around 800 million years ...