This video features Seongsan Ilchulbong (Sunrise Peak), Jeju Island, South Korea, a massive volcanic tuff cone rising ...

Though it was ebb tide, the waves continued to relentlessly erode the mass of mud volcano material that claimed their free ...

The seafloor plays an important ecological and societal role. Understanding the processes that shape this environment will ...

An island could form in the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea, as a new underwater volcano erupts close to the surface.

Seismic waves have revealed that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau was dramatically transformed by the ...

The world’s largest oceanic plateau may have formed through a mantle process more complex than previously thought. Credit: Stock A thermochemical plume may explain how Earth’s largest oceanic plateau ...

The open ocean often seems like a permanent fixture of our planet, a vast expanse of blue water that can appear unchanged for ...

Calderas are vast crater-like depressions left when a volcano empties enough of its underground magma chamber for the ground above to collapse in on itself. Some are long extinct, ...

AI illustration of an underwater volcanic eruption at a mid-ocean ridge. Credit: GR Archive Scientists have captured, for the first time, a real-time recording of the ocean floor as it splits apart ...

Yes, Tenerife has dozens of beaches on which to stretch out, switch off and toast into a nice shade of bronze. But to do just that is nothing short of a crime on such a multi-face ...

The discovery of 73 underwater volcanoes could help scientists prepare for disasters like the one in Tonga. They cause one of the strongest eruptions, yet are hardly understood. Scientists have warned ...

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