Little is known about the nature and evolution of Earth's continental crust before a few billion years ago because cratons, ...

Huge "tiger stripe" fault lines seen on Saturn's moon Enceladus raise hopes that a "long-lived" ocean containing potential ...

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The movement of tectonic plates shapes the rocky features of Earth's surface. Plates' convergence can form mountain ranges or ...

As the climate warms and Antarctica's glaciers and ice sheets melt, the resulting rise in sea level has the potential to ...

Information from igneous zircon molecules gives researchers new insight into the workings of the inner Earth. Little is known ...

In 1998, the SHIPS (Seismic Hazards Investigation in Puget Sound) program acquired seismic reflection data through Puget Sound as part of a large survey aimed at mapping the subsurface architecture to ...

Aldersons, F. Ben-Avraham, Z. Hofstetter, A. Kissling, E. and Al-Yazjeen, T. 2003. Lower-crustal strength under the Dead Sea basin from local earthquake data and ...

At about 9:20 p.m. Friday a 2.8 magnitude earthquake was registered in the Richland area by the Pacific Northwest Seismic ...

With a small chance that a 9.0 earthquake will hit coastal Washington within the next 50 years, here's what you need to know ...

"Regional strike-slip motion causes localized crustal extension as well as volcanism over the Salton Basin. This process is ...

While plate tectonics undoubtedly played a role, new research from Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry challenges the notion ...