Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

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

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 ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

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

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 ...

Advert 700 metres below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean was a hydrothermal field, often described as a geological area ...

Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / CDeepSea / University of Bergen / ROV Aegir6000 At the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.” ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...