Category: Earth

Britain is known for being geologically stable and tectonically quiet, the last volcanic eruption was around 60 million years ago when Britain was moving away from the tectonic boundaries and hotspots.

Throughout Britain, volcanism is evident…

The rock strata is a definitive timeline that records the geological history of our planet, however, there is a mystery that has confounded geologists for over a century – 1 billion years are missing.

The geological anomaly, dubbed “the Great…

Buried a mile beneath Greenland’s thick ice sheet is a network of canyons so deep and long that the largest of these has been called Greenland’s “Grand Canyon.”

This megacanyon’s shape suggests it was carved by running water prior to…

Research carried out by scientists at Keele University, the University of Manchester and University College Dublin has shed new light on how precious metals are concentrated in igneous rocks.

The solidified remains of sub-volcanic magmatic…

A new study led by McGill University has found that tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s surface can show varying degrees of roughness and could help explain why certain earthquakes are stronger than others.

Earthquakes happen when the rocks…

Under the volcanoes in the Andes where Chile, Argentina and Bolivia meet, there is a gigantic reservoir of molten magma.

For several million years, it has been there without fully solidifying or causing a supervolcanic eruption. Geologists have…

How do mountains form? What forces are needed to carve out a basin? Why does the Earth tremble and quake?

Earth scientists pursue these fundamental questions to gain a better understanding of our planet’s deep past and present workings. Their…

An enduring question in geology is when Earth’s tectonic plates began pushing and pulling in a process that helped the planet evolve and shaped its continents into the ones that exist today.

Some researchers theorize it happened around four…

In May 2018 Kīlauea volcano on the island of Hawaii erupted, touching off months of intense activity. Through August, incandescent lava from fissures spewed hundreds of feet in the air, and billowing ash clouds reached as high as six miles into…