From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

Deep beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean, nearly a mile underwater, one of the most fascinating volcanoes in the world is ...

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 ...

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

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of ...

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 ...

Axial Seamount, located 300 miles off the Oregon coast, is showing signs of an imminent eruption, its first since 2015, ...

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

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

According to the team’s calculations, the motion of the North American continental plate may have sped up by 25% as the ice melted. At the same time, spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge, which ...