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

Beneath Alaska’s breathtaking landscapes and pristine wilderness lies one of the most geologically active regions on the ...

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

New research reveals that early Earth concealed a deep ocean of magma, which may explain today's anomalies in the planet's ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

The Arabian and Eurasian plates are still converging, and recent research indicates a chunk of oceanic crust that separated ...

The paper advocates drilling intact oceanic crust to determine the Moho's petrological nature and resolve crustal composition misconceptions, ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...