New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

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

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of history's greatest animal migrations.

A rare geological process is tearing the Indian Plate apart deep beneath the surface, scientists have discovered. In a study ...

While most people think of continents as stationary masses, the truth is that every landmass on Earth is in motion, riding ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

Geologists have uncovered a long-lost continental fragment buried beneath the thick ice of Greenland, a discovery that offers new insight into the ancient forces that shaped Earth’s surface. This ...

Earthquakes strike when tectonic plates, the large rocks making up the Earth’s crust, rub against each other. The USGS says the Myanmar quake occurred due to “strike slip faulting” between ...

Salameh, E. and Yaseen, M. (2025) Structural Elements and Seismic Activity in Jordan and Its Levant Surroundings. Journal of ...

I mean, remember: We were at of 2 percent to 3 percent. So when I talk about the underlying tectonic plates of the global economy, it will have an effect. The China part, I think, is more ...

What makes this even more intriguing is the suspected cause of the dripping: a long-lost oceanic tectonic plate called the Farallon Plate. Although it has been subducted—pulled under the North ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct into Earth’s mantle. Compositional anomalies, formed millions of years ago, ...