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

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

Scientists have discovered hundreds of giant sand bodies beneath the North Sea that appear to defy fundamental geological ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

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

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 ...

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