A new geochronology of Mesozoic magmatism along the eastern margin of North America shows that continental breakup involved ...

But beneath them, deep within the Earth’s crust, a geological anomaly is slowly but surely reshaping the landscape. Recent ...

A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland ...

A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

In continental rifting, there’s a mix of stretching and breaking that reaches deep into the Earth, said geophysicist D. Sarah Stamps. Continental rifting involves the stretching of the ...

In continental rifting, there's a mix of stretching and breaking that reaches deep into the Earth, said geophysicist D. Sarah Stamps.

“ These features begin their formation before continental rifting and develop into wide magmatic rift systems capable of isolating slivers of continental crust within the new igneous crust.” ...