The guest science team onboard included established and early career researchers from South Africa, Madagascar, Mozambique ... Seamounts are formed primarily by volcanic activity, often at tectonic ...

As the tectonic plates of geopolitics shift, an interesting development has been the relative stability and neutrality of the Gulf states, which have hosted peace talks on both Israel-Gaza and ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have persisted for hundreds of millions of years, others have vanished, sinking ...

The Tibetan Plateau is known for its seismic activity due to tectonic plate collisions. Also Read: Earthquake in Delhi: Residents panic amid strong tremors, say ‘Felt as if some bridge collapsed ...

Geoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific Ocean – and they've discovered something quite peculiar. There are ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

At the confluence of multiple tectonic plates, on the Pacific Ring of Fire, sits the West Coast of the United States, where the Cascade mountains in Oregon and Washington are dotted with active ...

Early Friday, a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake that originated near Mandalay, Myanmar, shook the Earth as far as Bangkok, about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) away. Two hard-hit cities in Myanmar ...