Volcanoes across the country are beginning to wake up and erupt, and no one has a good explanation for why it's happening.

Geophysicists point to a super-hot layer beneath the tectonic plates as the place of origin for volcanoes, as opposed to deep within the Earth's core. A long-held assumption about the Earth is ...

Scientists have recently discovered a new way that volcanoes are forming – deep below the paradise island of Bermuda. We all know from middle school Earth Science that the shifting of tectonic plates ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and they still are. Our new study reveals fresh evidence of rhythmic pulses of ...

According to the old model of how volcanoes grow, the volcanoes of the Mediterranean shouldn't exist. A new model could explain how they got there.

This revelation overturns our understanding of how submarine volcanoes and tectonic plates form. Researchers from the and the University of Hawaii have traced the origin of a massive volcanic ...

These types of volcanoes are a relatively new discovery, with the first having been found in 2006 by a team of Japanese researchers. Petit-spot volcanoes appear along the base of tectonic plates.

Plate tectonics, responsible for deadly earthquakes and volcanoes around the globe, may also be a key factor in the success of life as we know it on the third planet, a new study suggests.

Divergent plate boundaries — A place where two tectonic plates of the Earth are moving away from ... the reason we have the copper mines in the U.P. is a result of the volcanoes that formed there.