When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

Mt. Edgecumbe's Magma Spotted to Rise Towards Earth's Crust—Activity on Alaska's Dormant Volcano? A volcanic activity is rising up, and researchers use a novel method for this.

This layer of crust contains molten rock that is potentially ready to erupt. ... A volcanologist shows what makes magma go boom.] ... before rising through the Earth’s crust to volcanoes.

This means that a body of molten rock is rising up, likely along a weakness in the crust, forming this straight line of earthquakes as it goes. Over 800 earthquakes have occurred in the past 24 hours ...

According to the shallow magma model, rising magma is piling pressure on the crust, which happened when the ground rose in the 1980s. According to the hot fluids model, ...

Lava is the form of magma, or molten or semi-molten rock, that erupts to the surface, such as via a volcano or through a crust fracture. We all know lava is pretty hot, but exactly how hot is lava?

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Oceanic island basalt, found in Hawaii and Iceland, has significantly more primordial isotopes in its crust than in other parts of the surface. It was previously theorized that the tungsten and helium ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...