"The same physical process will take place in both cases — the explosive spring of the bent plates will release in the same ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

O ne billion years ago, Earth was boring as hell. Animals were yet to evolve and most life was small, simple, and slimy. Even ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems, including cracks, at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they have inspected since a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the southwest region last week ...

Recent discoveries have revealed exciting insights into the dynamic behavior of the Indian Plate beneath the Earth's surface.

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts ...

These fragments of our surface do have a tendency to sink into Earth's mantle when they lose out in the plate-on-plate ...

The Himalayas, Earth's towering mountain range, stand as the product of a slow-motion geological collision between the Indian ...

An international team of geophysicists says it has discovered evidence of a "lost world" hidden beneath the Western Pacific ...

THE GEOLOGY OF the Olympic Peninsula offers a fascinating glimpse into the massive forces of nature that shaped this land into one of the most complicated rock piles in the world.