Jack looks at projections of Earth’s continents far into the future, exploring geological and plate tectonic predictions for ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

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Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

New research highlights the complex relationship between Earth's tectonic plate movements and climate shifts. Contrary to ...

A geologic map of the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. The rocks exposed here range from 2.5 to 3.5 billion years ago, offering a uniquely well-preserved window into Earth's deep past. The authors ...

In 2016, the geochemists Jonas Tusch and Carsten Münker hammered a thousand pounds of rock from the Australian Outback and airfreighted it home to Cologne, Germany. Five years of sawing, crushing, ...

A hidden shard of ancient crust has been detected where California’s San Andreas system collides with the Cascadia subduction ...