Deep beneath the ocean waves, dangers lurk. Not from cryptic monsters like the kraken, but from powerful forces reshaping the ...

Around 800 million years ago, Earth looked very different from the world we know today. Continents were shifting, oceans were closing and opening, and the foundations of our modern planet were being ...

Along 1,100 kilometers, from Mexico to Costa Rica, lies the Central American volcanic arc, where the variety of magma types make for a geological paradise. By Pablo Fonseca Q. / Knowable Magazine ...

Bringing a novel approach to a classic problem, researchers have revealed how changes in ocean chemistry over the past 2 billion years have left an imprint on volcanic rocks formed in island arcs.

Around 800 million years ago, during the Tonian period, the Yangtze Block in South China experienced significant tectonic activity, in which the ancient supercontinent Rodinia broke off from the area ...

Think of a remote arc of volcanic islands that extends nearly 1,000 miles from the tip of Alaska towards Russia’s Kamchatka ...

Volcanic island arcs form above subduction zones where an oceanic plate descends beneath another plate, generating magmas that rise to build submarine edifices and emergent islands. Magma composition ...

The Aegean Arc represents a dynamic convergent boundary where the African plate subducts beneath the Eurasian plate. This geodynamic setting has given rise to a chain of volcanic centres characterised ...

Zellmer, Georg F., Pistone, Mattia, Iizuka, Yoshiyuki, Andrews, Benjamin J., Gomez-Tuena, Arturo, Straub, Susanne M., and Cottrell, Elizabeth. 2016. "Petrogenesis of ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Strengthening Volcano Science." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest ...