Emerging Crack in Africa Will See Continent Split Into Two in Future: Researchers In East Africa's dry Afar region, the ...

A thick portion of Earth’s crust may have capped the Samoan plume and suppressed volcanism for 30 million years, explaining a ...

Planet Earth's sixth ocean has been spotted slowly emerging in what is a geological phenomenon. While experts have been ...

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The Blackhawks' youth movement is progressing at the speed of a tectonic plate, but there was good news Tuesday. First-round ...

Meteorite impacts helped create Earth’s oceans and continents. They sparked life’s evolution through changes in the ...

Living microbes were recently discovered sealed away inside a two-billion-year-old rock, setting a new precedent for what is ...

The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular - perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to ...

Bringing a novel approach to a classic problem, researchers have revealed how changes in ocean chemistry over the past 2 ...

E xtinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

Nadja Drabon’s team at Harvard paints the most compelling picture to date of what happened the day the S2 meteorite crashed ...