A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

The integration of petrological, geochemical, and isotopic data strongly supports the hypothesis that plate tectonics began to operate, at least partially, by the latest Neoarchean (~2.54 Ga).

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

It has been thought that plate tectonics were a significant factor in the shaping of our planet and the evolution of life. Mars and Venus don't experience such movements of crustal plates, but ...

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

An expert has said that the epicentre of the quake is located in an area responsible for 90% of the world's earthquakes.

Their findings, recently published in Science Advances, suggest that early continental crust likely formed through deep Earth processes called mantle plumes, rather than the plate tectonics that ...

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

It took many years for this intercontinental drift and plate tectonics model to become established, as the evidence in its favour gradually accumulated and neatly explained very many observations ...

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs about how the planet’s first continents came into being. Researchers from ...