Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic tectonic collision that created the Himalayas.

About 240 miles long, Utah's Wasatch Fault stretches along the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains from southern Idaho to ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...

India’s tectonic plate may be splitting into layers beneath Tibet, revealing mantle helium leaks and reshaping theories of ...

An earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause parts of the coast to sink several feet, creating ongoing ...

Such plate tectonics have left unique chemical signatures ... calling an important tenet of geology into question. The study, which used a combination of models and lab studies, will have to ...

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

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...