A recent study has pinpointed the origin of a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption,' shedding new light on Earth's intricate ...

A new study reveals that less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually recorded, exposing major gaps in ocean ...

Axial Seamount sits at a geological crossroads, fueling some of the most intense undersea action in the region.

Perched on a hot spot along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the volcano is steadily inflating with magma, raising  the frequency of ...

Abrupt earthquake-triggered land changes are not a new idea. The earliest written accounts of great earthquakes causing the ...

A multinational team of scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus will set sail Monday for a 22-day mission to ...

Over the Sierra crest — about 150 miles to the east of Manteca, Oakdale, and Turlock — is one of the world’s largest active ...

MTSU geology professor Dr. Warner Cribb took a group, mostly alumni and their children, on a geological tour of campus where ...

How did it form? Originally, this rock formed when quartz silt and sand particles mixed with volcanic ash from erupting volcanoes as they settled to the bottom of the ocean floor. Once there, they ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, ...

In shallow coastal waters around the world, mud and other fine-grained sediments such as clay and silt form critical blue ...

We know next to nothing about Earth’s seafloors. According to a study published May 7 in Science Advances, humans have only ...