Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Board of Directors approved the custom-designed plates last winter, marking a new way ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

Tectonic Plates Can ‘Infect’ One Another with Earth-Shaking Subduction Zones Evidence from Earth’s deep past suggests dramatic subduction zones can spread like a contagion Evan Howell ...