The oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau reveals a complex internal structure, shaped by layered formations and intrusive dike swarms. Subtle seismic signals hint at deep chemical alteration ...

Some tropical land regions may warm more dramatically than previously predicted, as climate change progresses, according to a new CU Boulder study that looks millions of years into Earth's past. Using ...

Three abandoned narco subs have been found in the Solomon Islands recently, beginning last August when a local doctor discovered one at the Ontong Java Atoll. They were found empty but, alarmingly, it ...

Reubenson and Martin Fugui have been boating around their island village their entire lives, but they'd never seen anything like this before. The cousins were on their usual morning boat run on ...

Scientists long wondered whether there were places on Earth where extremely hot material from the core of the Earth moves up through the mantle, and if these plumes were responsible for some volcanic ...

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 team of geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history with its source deep beneath the Pacific ...