The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of the ...

Geologists from St. Petersburg State University, as part of an international scientific team, have analyzed rock data from ...

In Dante’s Peak, unexpected tectonic activity results in a massive volcanic eruption which threatens the lives and livelihoods of the people living nearby. It’s the perfect setting for a story in ...

Today, Earth’s landmasses are split up into several continents, separated by vast oceans. But this has not always been the case – hundreds of millions of years ago, they formed a single supercontinent ...

For decades, scientists have accepted a particular theory regarding the evolution Earth’s plate tectonics, but a recent study published in Nature Geoscience could defy this as a team of researchers ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ancient supercontinent. More than 800 million years ago, tectonic rifting ...

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Australian researchers found a series of rocks that show something quite surprising: part of Australia could have once been connected to a part of Canada on the North American continent, around 1.7 ...

CHAPEL HILL – In 1912, German meterorologist Alfred Wegener proposed a theory that first angered and then intrigued scientists and others ever since. Continents shifted around at far slower than a ...

Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world’s most promising new deposits of niobium — a metal vital for producing high-strength steel and clean ...

Researchers have discovered a 400-mile-long chain of extinct, fossilized volcanoes buried deep below South China. The volcanoes formed when two tectonic plates collided during the breakup of the ...