Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Most of the Earth is covered by water. About 71 percent of the planet’s surface is ocean, while the rest is land made up of ...

Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major ...

The audience was stunned. Atwater was the first person to use the newly revealed secrets of the seafloor to explain a ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are ...

Research tracks deep carbon cycle over 540 million years, links icehouse and greenhouse phases to movement of tectonic plates ...

Researchers have identified an ancient tectonic fragment, the Pioneer fragment, buried under the coast, which may exacerbate earthquake hazards associated with the San Andreas and Cascadia faults.

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.