A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

The rift zone of the Gulf of Suez reveals features that indicate that the Arabian and African plates are still moving away ...

The knowledge of how Earth recycled its crust revealed that fragments of continents slowly peeled away and swept deep beneath ...