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New research described in the supplied source text argues that Yellowstone’s volcanic behavior may be powered more by shifts in Earth’s crust than by a deep mantle-fed magma source.

Researchers using seismic reflection imaging and earthquake records say the Juan de Fuca plate is splitting into fragments as it subducts beneath North America, offering a rare view of how subduction zones begin to fail.

Researchers have launched Paleolatitude.org, a public-facing tool built on a major tectonic reconstruction model that lets users track how any location’s latitude changed through deep time.

New research suggests Mount Etna does not fit neatly into the standard categories of volcano formation and may instead represent a previously unrecognized type of volcanism.

Researchers report that the crust beneath the Turkana Rift is thinner and rifting more advanced than previously recognized, sharpening the picture of how the African continent could eventually split apart.

A new analysis argues that evidence for an ancient ocean on Mars may lie not in a level ‘bathtub ring’ shoreline but in a massive continental-shelf-like zone spanning more than 10 million square kilometers.

A new Science paper, based on its title and citation metadata, reports that a late Miocene arrival of the Colorado River in the Bidahochi basin supports a spillover origin for the Grand Canyon.

A new report says geologists have identified what happened after the Colorado River disappeared from the geological record for millions of years.

New research argues the Colorado River may have pooled into a vast lake in northern Arizona before spilling downstream and helping carve the Grand Canyon, though the interpretation is not universally accepted.

Research highlighted this week argues that Yellowstone may be powered less by a deep mantle plume than by crust-opening stresses linked to the long disappearance of the Farallon plate beneath North America.

Natural hydrogen is increasingly credible as a geological phenomenon, but the gap between underground generation and a bankable energy business remains wide, according to a new assessment of the sector.

Mysterious Jurassic-era pink granite boulders in Antarctica's Hudson Mountains have guided researchers to the discovery of a massive granite body buried beneath Pine Island Glacier, spanning nearly 100 kilometers wide and 7 kilometers thick.