Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

Magma: hot stuff, coming through A better understanding of the movement of magma at plate boundaries could help predict volcanic eruptions more accurately, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM ...

Study reveals 'flawed argument' in debate over when plate tectonics began An ocean of magma formed early in Earth's history and it may still influence our planet today, study finds ...

A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Find out more with Bitesize KS2 Geography.

These so-called “hotspot” volcanoes are created when a narrow stream of hot mantle rises up from deep inside the earth and melts a hole in the plate so that the magma can ooze upward. The Hawaiian ...

Most of the Earth's listed active volcanoes are located at the borders between two tectonic plates, where upsurge of magma from the mantle is facilitated. When these magmatic uprisings occur at a ...

Scientists unearth 20 million years of 'hot spot' magmatism under Cocos plate Date: June 20, 2023 Source: Georgia Institute of Technology Summary: A team of scientists has observed past episodic ...

CHICAGO — An entire ocean of liquid magma, or maybe a hot heart of solid metal, may lurk in Io’s underworld. The surface of Jupiter’s innermost moon is covered in scorching lava lakes and ...

A rising plume of hot rock from Earth’s mantle may not be responsible for the Yellowstone supervolcano, new research suggests.

Engine of life Nowadays, jigsaw pieces of rigid crust float on a viscous, hot ocean of magma in the mantle, Earth's middle layer. These pieces of crust grind against each other, dive beneath each ...

A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Find out more with Bitesize KS2 Geography.