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

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 ...

This past spring, Swanson passed the milestone of having 50,000 students take the class from him over the years. It’s a number larger than the population of the British Columbia town he grew up in. He ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

This is meatloaf elevated to an art form while still respecting its humble origins. The loaf arrives as a generous slab, its ...

The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given ...