New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

San Andreas Fault stretches 1,200 km across California, housing quakes up to M 8.3. Experts warn of southern segment’s “Big ...

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

The chemical striping suggests the plume is pulsing, like a heartbeat.” That is how Professor Tom Gernon of the University of ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

These newly found fault lines suggest that the Pacific Plate is under far more stress than scientists had imagined. And that could mean a lot for how we predict seismic activity in the future.

In these faults, the blocks of rock slide past each other laterally due to shearing forces. Strike-slip faults are typically associated with transform plate boundaries.

Crustal brines at an oceanic transform fault: New research explores geological processes along plate boundaries by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Editors' notes ...

Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known arc-slicing fault in Australia, intensifying the debate over the origins of plate tectonics.

It's well known that earthquakes can rock fault-filled places like the U.S. West Coast. But why do earthquakes happen in the middle of tectonic plates?

A team of geoscientists from the University of Toronto is shedding new light on the century-old model of plate tectonics, which suggests the plates covering the ocean floors are rigid as they move ...

Plate Tectonics: The Slow Dance of Our Planet's Crust The puzzle pieces of Earth's lithosphere are always in motion, slamming against each other and grinding past one another.