As dawn broke over Myanmar on March 28, the earth violently shook, forever altering the landscape and lives of thousands. The ...

A surprising new discovery suggests that the Indian Plate is splitting into two, with a portion of it sinking into the mantle ...

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

This hidden geological layer, located between 254 and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) beneath the Earth’s surface, covers ...

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

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

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

The first is to practice noticing things in the classroom. On a birdwatching trail, I learned to slow down for every slight ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

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