The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the ...

What appears to be three tectonic plates in a map may act like five pieces that move underground. Northern California ...

Over the last few days, the Coachella Valley has experienced more than 20 earthquakes, causing concern among some residents.

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating earthquake risk at the Cascadia subduction zone.

Until the massacre at Bondi Beach, Anthony Albanese’s Labor government ended the year bestriding the federal landscape: a huge lower house majority, the Coalition reduced to its lowest primary vote ...

New research reveals the Indian tectonic plate beneath the Himalayas is not a solid slab but is warping and tearing. This internal breaking and delamination, particularly in the eastern Himalayas, ...

The tectonic plates are among the most powerful forces on Earth, exerting tremendous influence over every single life that unfolds on this planet. They are both creators and destroyers, capable of ...

"It's tearin' up my heart when I'm with you, but when we are apart, I feel it, too." Sure, it's a great opener to a pop song, but it also briefly describes what's happening to Africa. The continent is ...

Recent lab measurements show that olivine remains surprisingly transparent to infrared radiation under mantle conditions, causing rapid radiative heating of subducting slabs and restricting deep-water ...