A deep fracture in Earth's mantle is taking shape as the Indian and Eurasian plates collide and trigger a process called ...

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten Earth, smashing off a chunk large enough to form the moon. This Mars-sized ...

In 1963, Fred Vine, Drummond Matthews, and others found that the crust surrounding the midocean ridges showed alternating bands -- each band magnetized with a polarity opposite the surrounding bands.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded in the Beaus region on Monday morning, according to seismic data reviewed manually by ...

A groundbreaking study has unveiled a fiery, subterranean process that could explain the abundance of water across the solar ...

Mountain climbers need to be careful when climbing in the Grand Teton range, as national park rangers are warning of this ...

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A team of Earth scientists has discovered that continents are slowly peeling apart from below—sending fragments deep into the ...

The theory of plate tectonics is one of the most fundamental concepts in physical geography and geology, explaining the ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

All complex life on Earth may be the result of plate tectonics tearing apart the ancient supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion ...