Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

What if the most telling indications of an impending volcanic eruption are buried deep under the ocean, or in a fleeting succession of tiny quakes that no one perceives? As volcanoes of the Pacific ...

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.

ACCORDING to the ideas of Hess1 the backbone of active mid-oceanic ridges should consist of peridotites which originated in the Earth's mantle and were subsequently upthrusted into the crust along ...