Tibetan uplift was mainly caused by post-collisional mantle dynamics, not ongoing India-Asia convergence. The study ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

Fault lines exist within tectonic plates, as well. These intraplate faults can cause earthquakes far away from plate ...

Craving a novel Evergreen State adventure this summer? Saddle up your bike and ride the Loowit Tier, a 197-mile mountain bike ...

The next great earthquake isn't the only threat to the Pacific Northwest. A powerful earthquake, combined with rising sea ...

two tectonic plates grind in the Earth's crust. Prof Isobel Yeo, an expert on highly dangerous submarine volcanoes with Britain's National Oceanography Centre, is leading the mission. Around ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Something very strange appears to be happening deep, deep beneath the Midwest and Ohio Valley. North America’s geological core has persisted for billions of years—it’s what scientists call a ...

Earthquakes are responsible for more than 80 per cent of tsunamis that form around ... world’s tsunamis are generated by strong underwater earthquakes. Major earthquakes occur when tectonic ...

Rare earth metals in Ukraine were discovered back in Soviet times, but their study was abandoned. Ukraine has a considerable ...

The state's segment of Orogenesis, a bikepacking route from B.C. to the tip of Baja, was just unveiled. When complete, it ...