An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

Two BGSU students and their professor will spend much of spring semester in Antarctica studying undersea volcanoes.

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

Why these invisible organisms generate a significant portion of oxygen, absorb vast amounts of carbon, and purify water ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...

This is known as lithospheric foundering, a process where a portion of Earth's lithosphere (the rigid outer layer of the Earth) becomes too dense and sinks into the underlying, softer mantle.

A new study from the University of Houston could change the way we understand how lakes were formed.Aibing Li, a UH seismologist and co-author of the ...

The last time Kolumbo experienced a major eruption was 1650, coughing out ash seen as far away as Turkey. Pyroclastic flows – ...

Plate tectonics is a scientific theory that explains the structure and movements of the Earth's surface. According to this theory, the lithosphere (the Earth's rigid outer layer) is divided into ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. Intermediate-depth earthquakes ...