Shrinking lakes in Tibet likely woke up long-dormant tectonic faults, a new study finds. The findings strengthen the link ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

Crinkles and divots in the surface of Earth on Türkiye's Central Anatolian Plateau are the smoking gun for a newly discovered class of plate tectonics. Beneath a depression called the Konya Basin, ...

Deep inside Earth lies a hidden world of "intraterrestrials" that have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years — what ...

Precious metals may be escaping from the planet’s core. This hotly debated subject could help us understand Earth’s evolution and determine whether life exists elsewhere in the Universe ...

Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.

Continental clues: Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet’s history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new ...

China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this aspiration, it has deployed Meng Xiang – meaning "dream"– a colossal ...

Along 1,100 kilometers, from Mexico to Costa Rica, lies the Central American volcanic arc, where the variety of magma types make for a geological paradise. By Pablo Fonseca Q. / Knowable Magazine ...

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