Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Supplemental Figure 1: plate maps; Supplemental Figure 2: Venn diagram of the number of chemicals active for each phenotype; Supplemental Table 1: list of test chemicals with their identifiers, ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...