The ground beneath northern South America holds memories far older than any city or road. Locked inside ancient volcanic ...

New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, ...

The study focuses on how gold formed and moved within the Sawayaerdun gold deposit in northwest China, a large orogenic system shaped by long periods .

If you have been anywhere near a speaker or listen to a trending playlist lately, you may have likely felt the tectonic shift ...

Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the ...

Scientists at Stanford University have created the first global map of earthquakes occurring not in the Earth’s crust, but in ...

Using an unprecedented amount of high-resolution satellite data, researchers have found that Earth’s fault lines are far weaker—and continents far less rigid—than long-standing geological models ...

Long dismissed as a geological mystery, this underwater giant is now changing everything scientists thought they knew about ...

Wild Horse Island, visible from the park’s shore, is a 2,160-acre state park accessible only by boat, home to wild horses ...