An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface ...

Scientists have discovered massive structures deep inside Earth, beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. These structures are ...

Multiple major US cities could be mostly underwater in just 75 years, a startling new study predicts. The researchers ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological ...

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

What if everything you learned in school about Earth’s continents was wrong? New research has shaken the foundation of ...

Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery deep beneath the Earth 's surface, uncovering what they're calling "sunken worlds ...

"The same physical process will take place in both cases — the explosive spring of the bent plates will release in the same ...

As per a study, the tectonic plates in the area around Golan Heights shift between 0.3 and 0.6 inches every year.

It is shaped like a semicircle or horseshoe and stretches nearly 40,250 kilometres. The Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of numerous tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan ...