The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants can ...
Geologists from ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology studying the Earth's interior using seismic waves have ...
A new high-resolution computer model shows rocks that are colder, or have a different composition, in Earth's mantle where ...
The northward compression from the Indian Ocean plate is the result of the Indian plate's collision with the Eurasian plate.
"We don't know exactly what they are or what material is creating the patterns we have uncovered," researcher Thomas Schouten said.
Rujm el-Hiri, dubbed the “Stonehenge of the East” with a 492-foot diameter, has baffled experts since it was discovered in ...
A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...
An international team of geophysicists says it has discovered evidence of a "lost world" hidden beneath the Western Pacific ...
This volcano is the highlight of a chain of underwater mountains known as the Juan de Fuca Ridge (center of above image).
New research shows that three sites spread along an approximately 620-mile portion of today's Denali Fault were once a smaller united geologic feature indicative of the final joining of two land ...
In the last 75 years, more than 20 earthquakes above 6.0 magnitude have hit the Lhasa block, where lay the epicentre of this ...
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 ...