One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

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Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

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The large blue area in the western Pacific (right above the center of the image) was not known until now. According to this model, submerged tectonic plates should be found near subduction zones, ...

Earth bubbles and broils beneath an underwater peak called Axial Seamount, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off Oregon's ...

Global exports of Scotch Whisky experienced a decline in value but an increase in volume in 2024, new figures from the Scotch ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Day to day, most people can safely ignore that New Zealand rests along the boundary ...

This process is part of a larger geological cycle: Axial sits along the boundary between the Juan de Fuca and Pacific tectonic plates, where Earth’s crust is constantly shifting. Every time ...

The eruption began at 10:16 a.m. when molten rock broke through the surface inside Halemaʻumaʻu Crater. Within 30 minutes, a vent blasted lava 330 feet (100 meters) high, according to the Hawaiian ...

Day to day, most people can safely ignore that New Zealand rests along the boundary between the Indo-Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. But nature has a way of asserting itself. At 12:51 p.m. on ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...