Ancient tectonic plates continue to reshape the Earth's interior and reveal a deep connection to its global dynamics ...

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Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been generating magnitude 6 earthquakes with almost clocklike regularity for at ...

With terrain shaped by volcanic eruptions and shifting tectonic plates, and surrounding waters filled with glaciers, icebergs ...

Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the ...

Remote reefs off Australia’s northwest coast may be remnants of an ancient reef system that helped shape modern marine life.

If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half ...

High-altitude limestone layers reveal the fossilized remains of marine organisms that once thrived in the prehistoric Tethys ...

Scientists have mapped how Earth’s deepest mantle is being deformed—and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried thousands of kilometers underground. Using a massive global dataset of ...