For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the ...

Analyzing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in Earth's crust in Turkey has brought new ...

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

Africa is slowly drifting apart along the East African Rift System, and researchers suspect this tectonic movement would ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...

The groundbreaking discovery was detailed in a study published last year in the journal Gondwana Research by researchers from ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5 struck Papua New Guinea, around 142 kms northwest of Kimbe, a major town in West New Britain Province.