Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging ... "The mantle processes driving the dripping can influence how tectonic plates evolve over time, but they are very slow going," said the ...