Their existence contradicts the common assertion the Earth’s mantle is well-mixed, suggesting our models are wrong.

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 ...

Recent research suggests that the Great Lakes originated from the Cape Verde hotspot under the ancient supercontinent ... large depressions in the Earth's surface. Hotspots are stationary over ...

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

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes ... eruptions that can carry diamonds to the surface. The Cape Verde hotspot, on the other hand, had ...

A Hawaii surfer is lucky to be alive after being ... The world-famous beach is a hotspot for surfers and known for its super-sized waves. The video showed Simpson-Kane being thrown from his ...

Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

The Axial Seamount is not expected to threaten human population centres but it could help scientists forecast the eruption of ...

like in Hawaii or Iceland. Much of the scientific literature surrounding volcanoes uses seismic data - seismic waves that can map geologic structures - to measure the magma under the surface.

Axial Seamount off Oregon's coast is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest, about 300 miles offshore and just ...