Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come from? A new study may finally have the answer. Scientists have long believed ...

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

Bringing a novel approach to a classic problem, researchers have revealed how changes in ocean chemistry over the past 2 billion years have left an imprint on volcanic rocks formed in island arcs.

Deep beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean, nearly a mile underwater, one of the most fascinating volcanoes in the world is ...

By analyzing the age and chemical makeup of ancient rock samples taken from ... to better understand other ancient volcanic features scattered across the ocean floor and above its surface.

The most common trigger for tsunamis is large earthquakes that occur beneath or near the ocean floor, but landslides, volcanic eruptions ... 90 million tons of rock and ice to drop into the ...

Dr. Wozniak was parked on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean beneath ... end of a submarine volcanic eruption that had entombed the flourishing ecosystem under fresh lava rock. Vibrant signs of ...