But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

About 100 miles offshore from the Pacific Northwest, deep beneath the seafloor, two tectonic plates are building tension that could ... In the meantime, Tobin and other researchers are working to map ...

And given Earth’s ever-changing geology, in which massive craters are covered over by volcanic activity and the movement of tectonic plates, the evidence of what happened millions of years ago is hard ...

While there’s no singular quality that makes a great dinner plate, you know when you have a less-than specimen: It looks cheap, and it chips and scratches easily. Among those that are well made ...

as modern imaging techniques have not been able to identify convection currents within the mantle that are large enough to move tectonic plates. As a result this theory has been largely discredited.

The Earth’s crust, which floats on the mantle, is divided into several tectonic plates that either diverge ... far-field displacements observed on the Anatolian plate are too high.” Seismicity maps ...

MEXICO CITY, Oct 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said on Thursday that there is no pause in the strong relations between the Mexican government and the U.S. embassy in the ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

Rather than constantly flowing with tectonic plates, the mantle around hotspot plumes may remain relatively still, allowing ancient materials to persist. This revelation could force a significant ...