Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological process where fragments of continents are slowly stripped from below and swept deep into the oceanic mantle, sparking volcanic activity in unexpected ...

In Cambodia, the Tonlé Sap River performs a seasonal dance. During the monsoon, the Mekong River swells and pushes water into ...

Burn scars — slicked by fire and stripped of plants — are especially vulnerable. A storm after the Thomas Fire in 2018 ...

What are debris flows?: These fast-moving slurries of floodwater and sediment can hurtle down slopes, carrying cars, trees ...

Submarine canyons form in places where the seafloor is steepest, redefining how sediments and carbon travel to the depths of ...

Waves in Earth's mantle created by the rifting of continents may peel the planet's crust from below, feeding volcanoes in the middle of the ocean.

Rivers, typically flowing downhill, can surprisingly reverse course due to tides, floods, engineering, or ancient geological shifts. From Cambodia's T ...

Roughly 6.2 million years ago, the Red Sea—today one of the world’s most strategically vital marine passages—underwent a transformation so extreme that it vanished completely. The basin, once filled ...

Marine geophysical services company PXGEO has signed two significant contracts with Petrobras-led consortia, to deliver ...

Coastal geologist Stan Riggs shares an excerpt from his new book, "Cape Lookout National Seashore: Paradigm For A." ...

The Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean between Australia and Sri Lanka. They are one of the places the study relates to Earth ...