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

One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a new ocean and continent on Earth.

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

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

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

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

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

The Earth's mantle isn't just a hot, dense layer of rock; it's a dynamic and diverse engine driving our planet's geology.

Unexpected mantle structures hint at ancient or unknown materials, challenging current tectonic theories and prompting deeper ...

The extensive rift extends through a minimum of ten countries. Researchers suggest that Africa's eastern and western fissures indicate potential openings in various directions.

ctplanet provides several functions and example scripts for generating crustal thickness maps of a planet from gravity and topography data, and the calculation of hydrostatic relief along density ...

Recent research suggests that the Great Lakes originated from the Cape Verde hotspot under the ancient supercontinent Pangaea. This geological feature ...