Himalaya tectonic dam with a discharge

39 Ocean Bottom Seismometers where deployed on the ocean floor across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as part of the PI-LAB experiment. Credit: University of Southampton

Geological phenomenon widening the Atlantic Ocean

Getting to the bottom of tectonic plates

Geologists shed light on formation of Alaska Range

San Andreas Fault Zone

Chance of big San Andreas earthquake increased by Ridgecrest temblors, study...

Creative destruction: a thinner ocean plate sides under a continental plate, melting and recycling the ocean crust into the Earth’s interior and birthing volcanoes in this illustration of subduction, a consequence of modern plate tectonics. A new study reports evidence of a transition in multiple locations around the world, 3.8-3.6 billion years ago, from stable “protocrust” to pressures and processes that look a lot like modern subduction, suggesting a time when plates first got moving. Credit: Nikolas Midttun, CC-BY

Earliest geochemical evidence of plate tectonics found in 3.8-billion-year-old crystal

Brine pools are one of the most extreme environments on Earth, yet despite their high salinity, exotic chemistry, and complete lack of oxygen, these pools are teeming with life.

Rare deep-sea brine pools discovered in Red Sea

Ca-silicate inclusion inside a diamond from Kankan, Guinea. Photo credit: Margo Regier.

Superdeep diamonds provide a window on supercontinent growth

Satellite image of the Gibraltar Arc. Credit: NASA

Lithospheric thickening beneath the Betics and Rif mountains pulls down the...

The ancient rotation of the Iberian Peninsula left a magnetic trace

Recent connection between North and South America reaffirmed

“Lost continent” found under Mauritius

Expedition to Study Ancient Continental Breakup West of Spain

From nanocrystals to earthquakes, solid materials share similar failure characteristics

The Albian Gap, Salt Rock, and a Heated Debate

Iceland

Geophysicists challenge traditional theory underlying the origin of mid-plate volcanoes

Measuring the strength of olivine, the most abundant mineral in the...

Contact Metamorphism

Contact Metamorphism : What is Contact Metamorphism? How it formed?

Tectonic plates not rigid, deform horizontally in cooling process

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