Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

Although the quake was relatively modest, it was reportedly felt in several surrounding communities, including Enumclaw (12.5 ...

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

For the first time, a Michelin Guide will showcase the best restaurants in the American South ... on local farmers in North Carolina, too. “I’ve always said that California and Florida ...

He was arguably the most artistic American landscape photographer in ... He associated with California's intellectual and artistic elite. But Watkins’ life was not a completely charmed one.

“It’s similar in a lot of ways to the San Andreas fault that separates the Pacific and North American plates in California,” explains Susan Hough, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey. In ...

The Farallon plate and the North American plate once formed a subduction zone along the continent's west coast, with the former sliding beneath the latter and recycling its material into the mantle.

Recent shifts in U.S. trade policy have called free trade into question, threatening over three decades of progress shaped by ...

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: ...

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

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Caleb John Raleigh, nicknamed “Big Dumper”, was born in Cullowhee, North Carolina on November 26, 1996. He is the son of Todd ...