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

A deep-sea volcano 300 miles off the Oregon coast is showing strong signs it may erupt soon, researchers at the University of ...

“Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence and weight to the theory of plate tectonics, but her work is really about seafloor ...

An underwater volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon is displaying signs of a potential eruption, UW researchers found.

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

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 ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

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 ...