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

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 ...

An area of anomalously hot rocks 200 kilometers (120 miles) beneath the northern Appalachian Mountains could be the product ...

A vast pocket of unusually warm rock is making its way under the Appalachians toward New York, but it's not in a big ...

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

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

An ancient force long-buried beneath the Appalachians is heading for New York. Luckily for New York, it's a geological feature, not a horror-movie blob.

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

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 ...