Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

The 205-mile-deep hidden mantle zone under the Caribbean could reshape our understanding of Earth's interior.

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

The Farallon plate and the North American plate once formed a subduction ... adding that it may even stop as the Farallon ...