It’s been nearly a third of a century since Humboldt County and the triple junction region was rocked by three large ...

This surprising discovery comes just weeks after a major earthquake in Myanmar and could change how scientists understand the ...

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the process of subduction, in which one tectonic plate slides under another. But ...

The 205-mile-deep hidden mantle zone under the Caribbean could reshape our understanding of Earth's interior.

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Earth's very first protocrust was surprisingly similar to ...

Large distributions of basalt rock compositions within the MTZ can ... bottom seismic experiment conducted at an Atlantic subduction zone," said Dr. Catherine Rychert, formerly an Associate ...