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

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

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

It’s been nearly a third of a century since Humboldt County and the triple junction region was rocked by three large ...

Neither Padres nor Fernando Tatis Jr. looking for a move to center field as team deals with injuries to Jackson Merrill and ...

The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is where the Pacific plate drops westward under the Australian plate. It sits just off the east coast of the North Island. Subduction zones generate the largest ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, a drop starts to form, eventually becoming weighty enough to break off and ...

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the locations where the largest deposits of strategic metals, such as copper, ...

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

A recent study reveals that slow ocean expansion 15-6 million years ago caused sea levels to change and drop by up to 30 ...