A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...

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 ...

That movement has now left one pool of molten material on the west of the caldera disconnected from any heat sources, which ...

The hotspot heated and stretched Earth's crust, creating a topographical depression ... Hotspots, like those that formed Hawaii and Yellowstone, are plumes of molten material from Earth's mantle ...

("Lithosphere" refers to Earth's crust and the upper part of the mantle.) When she and her team discovered these signs of deformation, they weren't thinking of a hotspot. But a ...