A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

In the Triassic era, North America was part of Pangea, a supercontinent whose massive scale sparked extreme monsoons that ...

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.

The NASA satellite image shows rust-red rock formations in Wyoming—evidence of 220-million-year-old 'megamonsoons'.

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...