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

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Is your coastal zip code ready for a sudden six-foot drop? No joke it’s the bracing new reality for towns from Northern Cal to Washington, thanks to the powerful Cascadia subduction zone. According to ...

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

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

Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

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A North East beach highlighted for its “bizarre geology” has been officially crowned among the best in the North of England (and the UK).

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More than 1,300 earthquakes have hit Japan's Tokara Islands in two weeks, prompting evacuations of dozens of residents from the remote archipelago on the country's southern tip.