A new high-resolution computer model shows rocks that are colder, or have a different composition, in Earth's mantle where ...

Unveiling extraordinary discoveries beneath the Earth's surface: scientists challenge conventional theories with new findings ...

Hidden deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, researchers have uncovered anomalies in the Earth’s mantle that defy existing ...

The Himalayan mountain range was formed after the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collided around 50 million years ago. How does their movement continue to impact the region?

This week GNS released a high resolution update to the national Active Faults Database, detailing where the active faults are across the motu to support planning and engineering.

The Nazca plate, sometimes known as the Nasca plate, is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off South America’s west coast. It was named after the Nazca region in southern ...

That process is plate tectonics, in which Earth continuously subsumes and reforms the slabs of its rocky outer shell. It is thought to be inextricably linked to habitability and perhaps an ...

Besides the presence of liquid water and suitable surface temperatures, both necessary for life as we know it, plate ... other tectonic regimes, such as episodic or stagnant lid, become more prevalent ...