New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...

Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, is estimated to have 85,000 volcanoes, based on radar images from NASA's 1989 ...

The answer lies in plate tectonics ... Containing around 400 powerful volcanoes, Io is influenced by Jupiter's gravitational ...

Venus, however, is a different story. Its crust is thicker—anywhere from 30 to 90 kilometers—and its surface is extremely hot ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the newly discovered structures.

Unlike volcanoes at tectonic plate boundaries, hotspots occur in the middle ... brings heat and magma toward Earth's crust, which can cause magma from the mantle to erupt onto the seafloor and ...

Intraplate volcanism, or volcanism occurring away from plate boundaries, can provide clues about which areas of the MTZ are the most hydrated. Some of this volcanism occurs when water-rich mantle ...