Earthquakes wreck economies and claim lives. India lost about $79.5 billion to climate disasters over twenty years. The Bhuj ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we associate with modern continents. This means the telltale fingerprints of ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

New rock and paleomagnetic research give evidence for prolonged heating during the Cambrian-Ordovician tectonic consolidation of West Gondwanaland.

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

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that rock geometry. This includes the movements of the ...