This study presents a new 1.8-billion-year full-plate tectonic model, integrating geological and paleomagnetic data to ...

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, ...

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Strong storms in Colorado during summer often form due to the collision of two outflow boundaries - mini cold fronts that ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...