The characteristics of volcanoes scattered across the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, including Baekdu Mountain, Halla Mountain, and Ulleungdo Island, have long been a puzzle in the geology commu ...
A team of scientists has observed past episodic intraplate magmatism and corroborated the existence of a partial melt channel at the base of the Cocos Plate. Situated 60 kilometers beneath the Pacific ...
Ten years ago, Samer Naif made an unexpected discovery in Earth’s mantle: a narrow pocket, proposed to be filled with magma, hidden some 60 kilometers beneath the seafloor of the Cocos Plate. Mantle ...