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

Africa is currently experiencing geological processes that could eventually lead to the separation of the Somali Peninsula ...

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

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5 struck Papua New Guinea, around 142 kms northwest of Kimbe, a major town in West New Britain Province.

A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological history.

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the ...

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

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

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 ...