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.

Volcanos are releasing ash and smoke into the atmosphere on three continents. That might be making you think back to your elementary school science class when you probably studied volcanoes and lava.

Currently oceanic crust forms by the eruption of basaltic lava along a globe-encircling network of mid-ocean ridges. More than 18 cubic kilometers of rock are produced every year by this process.

The basaltic lava flow, known as the Carrizozo Malpaís, covers around 130 square miles (337 square kilometers) and is around 50 miles (80 kilometers) long. It is located near Carrizozo ...

Gazel continued to explain that the chemical makeup of most stars hosting exoplanets we've found suggest the planets should be made of the right stuff to form basalt lava: "It will be prevalent ...

The study shows that the lava flow is made of basaltic lava and weakens any notion that Venus might have once had an Earth-like climate with oceans of liquid water. Past studies have suggested ...

As a part of this series, we started off with Lonar Lake in India, followed by the Yoho National Park in Canada and now third on our list is the Columnar Basaltic Lava at St Mary’s Islands in ...

That’s a little dramatic, but it's sort of the truth. It's Black Desert Golf Resort in Utah, situated in a hardened basaltic lava field that dates back millions of years. Wait, what's basaltic lava?