This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

New Delhi: In a concerning development, Africa is slowly undergoing geological changes due to tectonic forces, which are causing the continent to split apart. According to the study, due to the ...

Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence.

This means that they are located above a ‘hot spot’ rather than along a plate boundary. Hot spots occur where columns of superheated magma, or mantle plumes, cause the Earth's crust to melt ...

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UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.