A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by Cuban, Colombian and Utrecht geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle ...

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from Colombia’s Universidad de Los Andes, led by Cuban geologist Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, ...

When plumes of magma well up through Earth's lithosphere, they create volcanoes, islands, seamounts, and other features on ...

GUPTA: On Earth, we also have volcanoes in the middle of a plate, not just the boundary. These are called hotspot volcanoes, and Hawaii is a great example of this. DOTTIN: Hotspot volcanoes are ...

A deserted island in Antarctica was once bustling with scientists and researchers but is now left eerily abandoned for ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

An curved arrow pointing right. A volcano erupted in Iceland's most densely populated area on December 18. It is the largest eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula since 2021. More from News A ...

But that presented the team with yet another conundrum. Hotspot volcanoes and their origins Volcanoes like those on Easter Island are so-called 'hotspot volcanoes'. These are common in the Pacific ...