Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Cratons are fascinating yet enigmatic geological formations. Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's ...

An international study, including researchers from The University of Western Australia, has unveiled new pathways to future ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

A magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon early Thursday morning, according to the United States Geological ...

No damage was reported. Washington state emergency management officials posted on social media that while it can be scary to ...

Recent research has identified that significant changes in the Earth's mantle composition began about 300 million years ago, ...

The Schmidt Ocean Institute shared footage from it's Chile Margin expedition on Instagram that shows a sparkling deep-sea ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck the southern coast of Oregon this week, but no tsunami was expected, ...

In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully drilled the deepest-ever core sample from Earth's ...

The North China Craton (NCC) is a very old and stable geological structure, experiencing deformations since the Mesozoic era.

It’s called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a megathrust fault or the meeting of two tectonic plates. The Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North ...