About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...

Distribution of distinct volcanic episodes on the Moon’s farside. The remote sensing image highlights the Chang’e-6 landing site along with nearby mare and cryptomare basaltic units. Basalt samples ...

Just one problem: Before now, no one was quite sure about the timing of the Columbia River flood basalts. "In order to answer the question of whether the Columbia River flood basalts caused the MMCO, ...

Oceanic basalts, including mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) and ocean island basalts (OIB), provide fundamental insights into the chemical and physical state of Earth’s mantle. Their major, ...

Large magma eruptions have produced great floods of basalt lava on the continents during Earth’s history. Conventionally, the largest flood basalt eruptions are thought to be possible only in regions ...

Information drawn from analyses of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes of materials from exposed Columbia River basalts has provided insights about how magma from volcanic eruptions millions of years ago ...

After a couple of hours of flight, the cargo plane began to smell strangely greasy and meaty. I was stiff as I stood up from the steel-plate floor to investigate. The navigator was still at his paper ...

Shaken-but-not-stirred remnants of Earth’s earliest years still exist nearly 4.6 billion years later. Researchers traced the shadowy footprints of an isotope that hasn’t existed for over 4.5 billion ...

HYDERABAD: Geology and archaeology enthusiasts have found ‘columnar basalts’ — natural sculpture-like rock formations formed th-rough the heating and cooling of melted volcanic lava containing basalt ...