Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

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 16 newly designated geoparks are located in China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea –marking its first geopark and ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

Scientists have predicted a mass extinction on Earth in 250 million years, wiping out all mammals due to extreme heat and ...

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

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...