A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

Earthquakes are among the most formidable natural disasters, striking with little warning and causing widespread devastation.

The socio-political differences between India’s north and south may have reduced with decades of assimilation but Hindu ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

Malaysians should remain vigilant for earthquakes even though it is outside the Pacific Ring of Fire, says an expert.

Myanmar is considered to be one of the most geologically "active" areas in the world because it sits on top of the ...