Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

The notion of consensus is poorly suited to scientific practice, where conclusions must remain revisable in light of new ...

New evidence suggests current estimates about tsunami size and how quickly waves make it to shore may be too high and too ...

The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...

Forget Atlantis. Without realizing it, vast numbers of tourists spend their holiday each year on the lost continent of Greater Adria,” declared Douwe van Hinsbergen, professor of global tectonics and ...

Japan is no stranger to seismic activity. As one of the most earthquake-prone countries on Earth, it sits atop four major ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...