A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock ...

The Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field has some of the largest rhyolite lava flows on Earth. Have you ever wondered what ...

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did — and learn to ...

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

New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth's hotter twin, according to new ...

Led by the University of Delaware’s Andrew Wozniak, associate professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy, a team of ...

The volcano, known as Axial Seamount, is located nearly 1 mile (1.4 kilometers) underwater on a geological hot spot, where searing gushes of molten rock rise from Earth ... In fact, most of the planet ...

Carbonate minerals contain carbon dioxide, which, when present in the atmosphere, warms a planet. These minerals suggest that carbon dioxide could have previously existed in the atmosphere in larger ...

"This gives us a maximum timeframe of 35 years for this rock formation, well within the course of a single human lifetime.

Both animals occupy fissures in the coastline’s volcanic rock and forage in the ocean. “How could you not fall in love with these birds?” asked the 78-year-old director of the University of ...

The coastline near Derwent Howe, in England’s Cumbria, hardly seems a place where geologists would find new things. They’ve ...

The researchers have documented a new “rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle”, which mimics natural rock cycles but involves human material over accelerated timescales. They warn that the rapid and ...