New magnetic evidence from volcanic rocks reveals that the collision of the Americas began far earlier than previously ...

What is called ‘Iran’ is, before anything else, a geological reality; a story of pressure, subsidence, folding, and time.

Discover 25 mind blowing ocean facts you never knew! Explore the Mariana Trench, hidden mountain ranges, and how the ocean ...

LONDON — The puzzle pieces of Earth's rocky crust are slowly and steadily moving — a process known as plate tectonics. These dynamic movements helped to create the habitats and climate that fostered ...

The Earth’s crust is constantly changing. It’s currently made of many huge rock slabs called tectonic plates—seven major ones along with many more smaller plates—that fit together like puzzle pieces ...

Scientists have discovered a Jurassic tectonic plate boundary that could help to predict what the planet might look like ...

In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports ...

A piece of Earth that scientists thought had vanished hundreds of millions of years ago has quietly turned up under the coast of Northern California. The long-lost Pioneer fragment, once part of the ...

Off the coast of Vancouver Island, scientists have captured unusually sharp images of a tectonic plate that is breaking apart as it sinks beneath North America. They describe a slab drop of about five ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...