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 ...

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 ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Tether and Adecoagro launch a pilot project to mine Bitcoin using surplus renewable energy from farms in Brazil.

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

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

Scientists say Africa is slowly splitting in two due to molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia, potentially forming a new ocean over millions of years.