These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Scientists from Utrecht University have discovered two enormous structures deep in Earth's mantle, suggesting that these ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

These are common in the Pacific Ocean; Hawai'i is a famous example. They form from large blobs of rock that slowly rise from ...

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island, scientists from University of ...

A hotspot that is now located in the Atlantic played a key role in forming the lakes, home to a fifth of the world's fresh ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, Earth scientists from the University of Hawai'i ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

Because the plumes start at the base of the mantle (at the boundary with the ... on young volcanic islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has just got a little deeper," he told Newsweek.

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, earth scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi ...