Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, is a beautiful sight. While beautiful, though, scientists have long wondered exactly how this mountain came to be. Now, new research has finally ...

Scientists have long held the belief that the fracturing of the Earth's brittle outer shell into faults along the deep ocean's mountainous landscape occurs only during long periods when no ...

For the first time, researchers have identified Earth's largest exposed fault lurking beneath the Banda Sea in eastern Indonesia. As a significant discovery, it explains the mystery of the 7.2 km (4.5 ...

A study by Brown researchers finds that changes in tectonic plate thickness across the Denali Fault in Alaska impact where it is located, shedding light on how major faults and earthquakes occur.

The San Andreas Fault is California's longest and most famous fault. At this fracture zone, two plates of Earth's crust move past each other. It stretches from the Salton Sea in Southern California to ...