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

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

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

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

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

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

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis Strait proto-microcontinent.

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

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

This surprising discovery comes just weeks after a major earthquake in Myanmar and could change how scientists understand the ...