Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

“It’s one of the biggest unsolved problems in plate tectonics ... a tectonic plate in two.) But the Iberian Peninsula, which includes Spain and Portugal, is on the other side of the world ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

Scientists believe they've discovered a 'ghost' plume for the first time. Rising from Earth's core beneath Oman, the ...

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent ...

If you’ve ever wanted to see the moment an underwater volcano begins to erupt in real time, you may be in luck. It just needs to happen first. And you need to be watching a live stream of the event if ...

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans and plate boundaries. But new research out of the University of Derby is ...

Iron ore deposits are about 1.3 billion years younger than previously believed, reshaping both scientific thinking and mining ...

“By dating these rocks and studying the magnetic anomalies they presented, we were able to map the major ... that arose when new plate boundaries formed. The combination of rock dating methods, ...

The research also acts like a treasure map of sorts, pointing to regions ... be extensive hydrogen reserves locked away in the world's mountain ranges, created by the push and pull of tectonic plates.