For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring ...

The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today.

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

Researchers used small zircon crystals to unlock information about magmas and plate tectonic activity in early Earth. The research provides chemical evidence that plate tectonics was most likely ...

Earth's mantle is so gooey, it takes eons for material that has been displaced by the weight of ice sheets to flow back. And ...

Earthquakes and volcanism occur as a result of plate tectonics. The movement of tectonic plates themselves is largely driven by the process known as subduction. The question of how new active ...

TORONTO, ON - Geoscientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and Istanbul Technical University have discovered a new process in plate tectonics which shows that tremendous damage occurs to areas ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

Madagascar’s cliffs, rolling plateaus, and winding rivers weren’t shaped by a single violent event. Instead, the island’s ...

A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions ...