Amassive chain of extinct volcanoes has been discovered deep below southern China, revealing a hidden piece of Earth’s ...

The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

With tectonic plates bumping and grinding against each other, Earth is a pretty active planet. But when did this activity begin? A new study from Yale University claims to have found evidence that ...

The shifting of tectonic plates in Central America has been poorly understood -- until now. New research on jade found along fault lines in Guatemala is helping geologists piece the puzzle of the past ...

The Himalayas are known as the Young Fold Mountains because they were formed by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian ...

About 300 years have passed since anyone has known about Okinawa’s past climate and geological history. But researchers at ...

In a groundbreaking observation, scientists have for the first time witnessed an undersea “slow slip” earthquake unzip in the Pacific Ocean. This event reveals that a tectonic plate is slowly breaking ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The evolution of geology as an independent science can be envisaged as a relatively continuous process yet marked by three fundamental steps.

You might not know it, but Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island we know and love today ...