The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere ...

One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a ...

Deep beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains, geologists have found evidence of Earth's rigid outer layer sinking into ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica.

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean ...

Beneath Earth’s ancient continents lie hidden pathways where critical metals accumulate, offering a key to unlocking the ...

The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the ...

Applications are now open for EGU members to request funding to run a training school, Galileo conference or conference ...