Massive crustal plates shift, creating mountains, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. This process, known as plate tectonics, ...

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

The reporter blames the laws of nature, plate tectonics to be precise. The Earth's crust is like a puzzle, constructed out of many pieces: There are a few gigantic oceanic plates and many smaller ...

Millions of years ago, a 10,000-foot-tall volcanic cone stood on the Cascade Ridge near Chinook Pass. Today, Fife’s Peaks are ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Australian Earth Science Education will engage local high school students through a series of hands-on workshops next week.

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...