As Africa undergoes a dramatic geological shift that may one day split the continent in two, here’s everything you need to ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

According to the team, the ongoing separation is progressing from the northeast to the south in a motion scientists liken to ...

Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures ...

A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...

Far below the familiar blue of the surface oceans, geophysicists are piecing together evidence for a vast, hidden reservoir of water locked inside the planet itself. Instead of filling open caverns, ...

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 geological ...

A planet's habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable ...

Description: While over 8 billion people have called Earth home for thousands of years, there are still many great mysteries ...

Learn how subduction zones form, drive massive earthquakes, create volcanoes, and shape Earth’s surface through powerful ...