These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

In Iceland, they're simply a natural part of ... Second of all, this part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the site of a mantle plume and a hot spot, similar to Hawaii. A mantle plume is a narrow ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A volcano erupted in Iceland's most densely populated area on December 18. It is the largest eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula since 2021. More from News A ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

h) The uplift of the Iceland mantle plume since the Miocene led to uplift of the British Islands and Norwegian into land, basically forming the present structural framework of the North Sea Basin.