Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly ...

By studying ancient lava flows that fractured over Turkey’s Tuz Gölü Fault, researchers at Curtin University have uncovered ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

The study also compared the results with measurements of lunar anorthosites, which are rare rocks on Earth but very common on ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

Earth scientists have discovered how continents are slowly peeled from beneath, fueling volcanic activity in an unexpected ...

Detached continental material travels into oceanic mantle, sustaining eruptions for tens of millions of years, researchers ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be ...

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes courtesy of ancient rocks in China and South Africa. A change in rock chemistry around that time provides ...