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

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

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

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

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

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

Scientists drilled the deepest core yet, reaching near Earth's mantle, uncovering unique geological samples and offering new ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

"It was shocking to see such a stark contrast across the fault," said Christine Chesley, a WHOI postdoc in Geology & Geophysics ... move apart forming new crust; and convergent boundaries ...

Imagine recreating the birth of life on Earth—unravelling the mysteries of our planet’s evolution and the origins of life itself. Though numerous theories a ...