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

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

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

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

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

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...