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

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

Discover why Earth’s rotation is accelerating, how lunar gravity and climate changes play a role, and what it means for timekeeping.

Earth’s biodiversity could be driven by a deep, tectonically controlled cycle that spans millions of years. The Tectonic ...

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

A tectonic clash in Tibet formed giant copper deposits, revealing how recycled crust can power clean energy and reshape ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...

The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...

That might sound like hair-splitting, but when you’re talking about the first 500 million years of Earth’s 4.6 billion-year existence, even a few hundred million years matter. Researchers believe the ...

Tectonic pulses beneath Africa are splitting the continent apart to produce a new ocean, according to University of Southampton scientists.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...