Researchers have discovered an unusual plume of magma beneath Oman that may have changed the course of the Indian tectonic ...

“It’s one of the biggest unsolved problems in plate tectonics,” Duarte says ... Importantly, the model does seem to explain the unusual featureless expanse that lies above the earthquake's ...

"The expanding-Earth theory had the merit of explaining with a fixist model the evidence of ancient continental connections," ...

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, ...

By analysing how the Earth's plates moved in the past, the researchers concluded that the Dani plume likely arrived during ...

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.

It’s surprising to find remnants of a plate that we just didn’t know about at all,” Suzanna van de Lagemaat, the Utrecht University geologist whose work has reversed decades of conventional wisdom ...

"None of the kids knew how to read a clock. I even explained how to read it, but they looked at me like I had two heads." ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology ... Slab stagnation in Earth’s mantle transition zone may be explained by transient weakening during the olivine–spinel phase transition.

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates—these are all signs that our planet is alive. But what is revealed deep inside Earth surprises laymen and scientists alike: Almost 3000 ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...