The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

In the last 75 years, more than 20 earthquakes above 6.0 magnitude have hit the Lhasa block, where lay the epicentre of this week’s quake in southern Tibet. Tuesday’s quake was caused by a northward ...

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

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Tibet today, January 7, 2025, caused by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian ...

"We don't know exactly what they are or what material is creating the patterns we have uncovered," researcher Thomas Schouten said.

Recent research suggests that the Great Lakes originated from the Cape Verde hotspot under the ancient supercontinent Pangaea ...

Geologists from ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology studying the Earth's interior using seismic waves have ...

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...

New research on the Denali Fault reveals three geologic sites were once united in a suture zone, marking the integration of ...

Continents and oceans have scientific definitions that underpin international law. The idea of dividing the world into ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.