Recent research has shed light on a fascinating connection between ancient continental breakups and current volcanic activity ...

Ken Sims, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, recently received a $325,841 National Science Foundation grant to look at understanding the processes and timescales of basalt ...

The earthquake distribution on ultra-slow mid-ocean ridges differs fundamentally from other spreading zones. Water circulating at a depth of up to 15 kilometers leads to the formation of rock that ...

A program designed to study the mid-ocean ridge system and enhance understanding of the relationship between the geological processes that lead to planetary renewal in the deep ocean and life forms ...

Deep beneath the world’s oceans, a slow-moving force is silently sculpting submarine volcanoes. This geological process, ...

Generally speaking, "ridge subduction" involves subduction of spreading oceanic ridges, aseismic ridges or oceanic plateaus and inactive arc ridges, and this common and important geological process ...

Some of the highest quality images ever taken of the Earth's lower crust reveal that the upper and lower crust form in two distinctly different ways. A team led by researchers from Columbia University ...

Sometimes in science, even a successful prediction isn’t enough. Earlier this year, we covered some research suggesting that ice age fluctuations in sea level influenced the volcanism at mid-ocean ...