The Afar region is a rare place on Earth where three tectonic rifts meet - the Main Ethiopian Rift, the Red Sea Rift, and the ...

Now, a new study has found evidence of a “ghost plume”—a mantle plume that shows no sign of volcanic activity on the ...

Sea-Floor Spreading. Geophysical phenomena ranging from earthquakes to continental drift are being explained by a new theory that gives promise of eventually relating geomagnetism and the earth's ...

A series of groundbreaking discoveries are reshaping the way scientists understand Earth’s deep history, hinting at secrets ...

Deep beneath Earth’s surface, hot mantle rock slowly rises, fueling massive volcanic activity, tearing continents apart, and ...

Open a middle‑school Earth‑science book and you’ll see a tidy story: the North Atlantic split apart, Greenland sailed west ...

A multinational team of scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus will set sail Monday for a 22-day mission to explore the volcanically active seafloor in the Marianas, where they aim ...

The theory encompasses the older concepts of continental drift, developed during the first decades of the 20th century by Alfred Wegener, and seafloor spreading, understood during the 1960s.

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being dredged for a construction project This is ...

Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation. By Steven Lee Myers Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests ...

The ongoing Illuminate invasion is devastating the Galactic Map with Super Earth now ravaged by the monstrous squids. In more bad news, a new Helldivers 2 stratagem input glitch is stopping the ...

Palaeomagnetism is the study of past variations in the Earth’s magnetic field as reconstructed from the rock and archaeological records. In addition to providing information about the intensity ...