The successful development of sustainable georesources for the energy transition is a key challenge for humankind in the 21st ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

Geology’s Theory of Everything continues successfully to defend its title. ■ Curious about the world? To enjoy our ...

Another prong of the administration’s actions is an attempt to influence what research is funded. Russell Vought, the head of ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Constructive plate margins close constructive plate marginAn area where two tectonic plates are moving away from one another. are where tectonic plates pull apart due to convection currents in the ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

The Nevada State Museum in Carson City has a new geology exhibit, according to a news release. The exhibit, scheduled to open Feb. 21, is in the Changing Earth Gallery on the second floor of the ...

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago has found evidence via lab experiments ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...