A new geochronology of Mesozoic magmatism along the eastern margin of North America shows that continental breakup involved ...

The Appalachian Mountains, with their ancient peaks and timeworn ridges, are a familiar sight in Eastern North America. But ...

The mystery of how continents break up could be solved with clues from the rifting earth of Ethiopia, researchers find. Since the 1960s, scientists have known that over the course of millions of ...

As with most fissures in actively rifting area, magma came up the cracks - always nice to have ready-made conduits - so this process of cracking and erupting is akin to what we might expect at a ...

However, this process has been going on for millions of years and to come out and misconstrue the study by Ayele and others in GRL as saying that the activity in 2005 started the rifting or that the ...

The Saudi Geological Survey on Tuesday recorded an earthquake in the southern Red Sea, approximately 150 kilometers west of the city of Jazan.The tremor measured 4.68 on the Richter scale. According ...