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

But as our climate changes and plate movement picks up, could we be in danger of the reverse occurring, with the ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

Here's What'll Happen When Plate Tectonics Grinds to a Halt. A new study says we may only have another 1.45 billion years to enjoy the dynamic action of Earth’s geologic engine.

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

Iron ore deposits are about 1.3 billion years younger than previously believed, reshaping both scientific thinking and mining ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

It’s surprising to find remnants of a plate that we just didn’t know about at all,” Suzanna van de Lagemaat, the Utrecht University geologist whose work has reversed decades of conventional wisdom ...

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 ...

Antarctica wasn’t always a frozen landscape. In fact, it may have once featured lush forests, palm trees, and rivers, according to new research published in the journal Nature Communications. “This ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting the two factors are linked in some way, researchers say.