For over 30 million years, from around 122 million years ago to 90 million years ago, basaltic lava erupted from fissures on the seafloor building up a volcanic plateau, eventually breaking sea level.

The mare basins on the Moon are topographic lows; they were even deeper holes before flooding by lava. The Colorado Plateau is an elevated area, most of it lying well above one-to-two miles (2-5 ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Drew White, graduate student ...

The thick stream of melted permafrost flowed like lava through a fertile valley in ... Many areas of the Tibetan plateau remain frozen due to their high altitude. In the video, the cold, black ...