Iceland is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world, but its seismic nature is part of a much broader geological ...

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above ...

The Afar region is a rare place on Earth where three tectonic rifts meet - the Main Ethiopian Rift, the Red Sea Rift, and the ...

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Scientists have been baffled to discover solid rock flowing 1,700 miles (2,700km) beneath the Earth's surface.

It’s surprising to find remnants of a plate that we just didn’t know about at all,” Suzanna van de Lagemaat, the Utrecht University geologist whose work has reversed decades of conventional wisdom ...