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 ...

Massif volcano Geologists have uncovered a stupendous volcano that is the biggest in the world and rivals the greatest in the solar system. Dubbed Tamu Massif, the volcano is part of the Shatsky Rise, ...

The Tamu massif is comparable in size to Olympus Mons on Mars Scientists say that they have discovered the single largest volcano in the world, a dead colossus deep beneath the Pacific waves. A team ...

Seismologists investigating how Earth forms new continental crust have compiled more than 20 years of seismic data from a wide swath of South America's Andean Plateau and determined that processes ...

Scientists say that they have discovered the single largest volcano in the world, a dead colossus deep beneath the Pacific waves. A team writing in the journal Nature Geoscience says the 310,000 sq km ...