Study finds 3-billion-year-old crystals on Mauritius tied to hidden microcontinent “Mauritia,” supporting 19th-century legends of a lost land beneath the Indian Ocean.

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New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

A Japan Meteorological Agency panel says no noticeable seismic activity has been observed in areas where a Nankai Trough ...