Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

The notion of consensus is poorly suited to scientific practice, where conclusions must remain revisable in light of new ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

Course content The course provides an overview of the Earth's tectonic evolution in the context of plate tectonics. The first part of the course consists of lectures giving a systematic description of ...

Forget Atlantis. Without realizing it, vast numbers of tourists spend their holiday each year on the lost continent of Greater Adria,” declared Douwe van Hinsbergen, professor of global tectonics and ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent ...

A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after ...

Yet some regions are far enough from tectonic plate boundaries to contain rocks that have remained unchanged for billions of ...