This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

Southern California is seismically active due to its location on tectonic plate boundaries, having experienced major quakes like the 1994 Northridge event. A strong but shallow earthquake with a ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

Mars Express captures images of Acheron Fossae, revealing the Red Planet’s split terrain—ancient cratered highlands and ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

A scientific analysis of samples collected on the surface of Mars shows the red planet has evolved its own version of a ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...