Scientists have uncovered a massive ancient geological feature beneath the Midwestern United States — a billion-year-old rift ...

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 ...

Steaming fissures, molten rocks ... Photograph by Christian Heeb, laif/Redux But unlike most basalt flows—such as the Columbia River basalts covering Washington State—the lava didn’t ...

It developed between 50 to 60 million years ago when a flood of lava oozed from fissures in the earth ... cores of the dark volcanic rock, called basalt, from deep inside the Icelandic ...

Several biotic crises during the past 300 million years have been linked to episodes of continental flood basalt volcanism, and in particular to the release of massive quantities of magmatic ...