About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...

Oct. 22 (UPI) --Most volcanic eruptions are of the basaltic variety. The eruptions are typically rather tame. Every once in a while, however, the same types of eruptions turn violent and explosive.

International group of researchers involving geologists from Wits University (Prof. Rais Latypov and Dr. Sofya Chistyakova) in Johannesburg have come up with an unexpected conclusion that basaltic ...

The NASA Earth Observatory has been doing an excellent job ofmonitoring the eruption at Eritrea's Nabro using all their eyes in the sky. The latest image, taken from the EO-1 Advanced Land Imager (see ...

Geoscientists have long thought that water -- along with shallow magma stored in Earth's crust -- drives volcanoes to erupt. Now, thanks to newly developed research tools, scientists have learned that ...

Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...