Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

Iceland, the land of ice and fire, is for geologists what the tropics are for ecologists: an opportunity for an unparalleled ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...

Three videos exploring tectonic activity - earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis - and featuring contrasting case studies of each.

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

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

FOOD lovers have been raving about Iceland’s hash browns which are the size of a dinner plate. The £2.50 pack, which includes two giant hash browns, has been hailed as the perfect Easter fry-up ...

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Volcanoes don't just destroy; they also preserve. How is it that this vulture feather has survived for 30,000 years in ...