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

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

The so-called “Boring Billion” may have been anything but—a supercontinent’s breakup 1.46 billion years ago may have sparked ...

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

San Ramon, California, experienced an earthquake of 3.3 magnitude on Monday, November 17, at 10:47 PM, the East Bay Times is ...

A magnitude of 3.6 indicates that the earthquake is classified as light on the Richter scale, which ranges from minor (below 3.0) to great (8.0 and above). In urban areas, even minor quakes can ...

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

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.

A panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater with the approximate location of the crater rim labeled, with an insert ...

Discover the new Mile Zero Trailhead in Zilker Park. The gateway to the Violet Crown Trail and Barton Creek Greenbelt ...