The coldest air of the season is set to slide over the Philadelphia area this weekend, which could lead to frost quakes, ice ...

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the ...

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

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

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

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

The study, led by U of A geophysicist graduate Songyun Huang and professor of geophysics Jeff Gu, uses seismic data from ...

A new study claims that an 80-100-foot-wide layer of clay exacerbated the 2011 earthquake.

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought. New research led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has ...

A thin, soft and slippery layer of clay-rich mud embedded in rock below the seafloor intensified the 2011 Japan earthquake ...

Scientists have uncovered the story of Greater Adria, a lost continent. This landmass, as large as Greenland, once existed between Africa and Europe. It was not lost but recycled, its pieces now ...

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the Japanese Islands—plates ...