Nature Geoscience, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41561-026-02030-0

Nature Geoscience spoke with Ana Ferreira (University College London, UK), Valerie Finlayson (University of Maryland, USA), and Jennifer Georgen (Old Dominion University, USA) about volcanism within oceanic tectonic plates, particularly its extreme intensity during the Cretaceous.