Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Iceland is a living masterpiece sculpted by two of nature’s most powerful elements, fire and ice. In this video, embark on an ...

There, the tectonic plates moved at around 21 millimetres per year before two major earthquakes struck — one of magnitude 8.0 in 1934 and another of 7.8 in 2015.

The birth of a behemoth The planet’s tectonic plates are in constant motion, reshaping the surface as they pull apart and collide. The Himalaya are the dramatic result of one such tectonic ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...

A department of UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for ocean, earth and atmospheric science research, education, and public ...

And so it has been for tens of millions of years, shaping animal evolution in different ways on each side. It all started about 30 million years ago, when the Australian tectonic plate bashed up ...

A series of low-intensity earthquakes, primarily in Karachi, Sindh, highlights the region's seismic vulnerability due to its location near the boundary of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.