A study reveals that the oldest continental crust on Earth is slowly being broken up by shifting tectonic forces.

It's important to know that the Earth's crust is a kind of puzzle ― albeit a dynamic one that consists of many individual pieces: A few gigantic oceanic plates and several small continental ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

They usually dive beneath a less dense oceanic or continental plate in a process known as subduction. This activity generates explosive volcanoes and fresh crust at the surface. 1:14 ...

Researchers have discovered an unusual plume of magma beneath Oman that may have changed the course of the Indian tectonic ...

Subduction zone earthquakes: This earthquake results from the tension of an oceanic plate slipping beneath a continental plate. When enough stress builds, the fault will rupture, ...

An oceanic plate dives beneath another in an illustration of a subduction zone. Studies of tectonic activity off the coast of Portugal may reveal a new subduction zone being born.

Geologists have attributed age-dependent variations in the chemistry of Ethiopian volcanic rocks to rhythmic pulses like a ...

FIFA Club World Cup, with FIFA instituting a particular rule to prevent too many teams from one country filling up the ...

Changes could ripple through ecosystems further afield with the potential to affect key fisheries in the Southern Ocean, ...

The property presents the complete portrayal of the geological events that took place when the ancient continental margin of North America was modified by plate movement by emplacement of a large, ...