A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come ...

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the ...

A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological history.

Earth scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Maryland and others finally connected the dots ...

What we’ve found is that this reservoir hasn’t shut down — it’s been sitting there for a couple million years, but it’s still ...

His models showed that, at that time, a large volcanic plateau could have formed on the Phoenix Plate at the same location. About 110 million years ago, this plateau would have been pushed under ...

Kenneth Sims and other research scientists recently discovered that mafic volcanism of Henrys Fork Caldera -- located in ...

Yellowstone is most famous for huge explosive eruptions that create large calderas. Outside Yellowstone Caldera, however, ...