An international team of geoscientists, chemists and climate scientists, has found evidence of a possible ghost plume beneath the territory of Oman. In their paper published in the journal Earth and ...

The planet Mars is home to thick layers of clay that can span hundreds of feet. Since they need water to form, these outcrops ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ago, we see the emergence of Pangaea, the supercontinent associated with ...

“It’s almost like the Earth is running the experiment for us,” she says. The planet’s tectonic plates are in constant motion, reshaping the surface as they pull apart and collide. The ...

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

Dive into the world beneath your feet and discover what tectonic plates are, how they move, and why they're responsible for ...

Buildings swayed, sirens blared and panicked Colombians raced onto the streets Sunday after a shallow 6.3 magnitude ...

A major 6.3-magnitude earthquake lasting several seconds shook the Colombian capital of Bogota early Sunday, according to AFP ...

It appears that the lithosphere, which is the rocks on the outside of the world, has a pretty significant role to play in why the tectonic plates are moving the way they are.” These are the words used ...

The hulking rock, called Maka Lahi, is the size of a two-story house and sits on a 120-foot-tall cliff, covered in vegetation ...

So how do subduction zones start? “It’s one of the biggest unsolved problems in plate tectonics,” Duarte says. One way to locate subduction zones—and perhaps also baby subduction zones ...

Our tomographic images of shear-wave velocities in the upper mantle beneath the SEUS provide new constraints on the evolution of mantle lithosphere, both from the inheritance of structures from ...