At the heart of some of the oldest rocks in the Earth's crust, an international team has identified a chemical signature ...

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself ...

This shift in Earth’s tectonic tempo had profound implications above ground. With less volcanic carbon dioxide heating the ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

This chemical signature or fingerprint doesn't show up in studies of other large impacts on Earth, or in any geological ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

It’s one of the only places on Earth where three giant cracks, or rifts, in the Earth’s surface meet. These rifts stretch across Ethiopia and beyond, and over time, they are splitting the land apart.