How did the continents form? Although to a certain extent this remains an open question, the oceanic plateau of the Kerguelen Islands may well provide part of the answer, according to a ...

Back in the 1970s, scientists came up with a revolutionary idea about how Earth's deep interior works. They proposed it is slowly churning like a lava lamp, with buoyant blobs rising as plumes of hot ...

Location of the sedimentary rocks – known as cherts – that were investigated: Shatsky Rise in the northern West Pacific is the world's third-largest oceanic plateau, covering an area larger than ...

Columbia River flood basalt province : current status / Peter R. Hooper -- Evolution of the Red Sea volcanic margin, western Yemen / Martin Menzies ... [et al.] -- North Atlantic Igneous Province / ...

Although everyone learns that the Earth is neatly divided into seven continents (at least for now), a scientist from the University of Derby recently suggested that things may not be so clear cut.