Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations ...

Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several large US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone.

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

Did you feel it? The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) says a 3.0 magnitude earthquake hit near Okanogan Wednesday ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Earth's very first protocrust was surprisingly similar to ...

Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the 21st century, while ensuring scientific accuracy and acknowledging past ...