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

Microscopic zircon crystals discovered in Western Australia suggest that Earth may have had continental crust as early as 4.4 ...

All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

New research suggests Hawaii’s volcanoes are fueled by a deep mantle plume that splits, drawing from different Earths.

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Ever wondered why you won't find kangaroos outside Australia? It all started with massive climate change millions of years ...

Scientists uncover hidden faults beneath Northern California’s Mendocino triple junction. The discovery reshapes ...

A new seismic study reveals that Earth’s largest volcanic event fundamentally transformed the oceanic plate beneath the ...