About 1000 kilometers off the coast of Portugal, hidden beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, lies one of the most interesting geological features on Earth. Stretching roughly 500 kilometers, the ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

New geological study shows Spain and Portugal are moving northward at 4-6mm annually as the Iberian Peninsula undergoes clockwise rotation towards the Eurasian tectonic plate ...

Earth could once again be dominated by a single continental mass in roughly 200 to 250 million years. The planet moves through natural cycles in which continents break apart and later reassemble, and ...

Deep under the Pacific Ocean, between 900 and 1,200 km deep, scientists have discovered something that doesn’t fit with what textbooks say about our planet.

A region beneath Antarctica where Earth’s gravitational pull is measurably weaker than anywhere else on the planet has persisted for roughly 70 million years, according to new research that traces the ...

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and runs smack in the middle of the United States at the Great Lakes. The rift ...

“If we don’t understand the underlying tectonic processes, it’s hard to predict the seismic hazard,” said co-author Amanda Thomas, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Davis. Three of the ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ice ages and warm climates, new research finds. Published in Communications ...

An earthquake-generating chunk of tectonic plate has been discovered beneath Northern California. It’s attached to the bottom of the North American plate like gum stuck to a shoe. Using abundant, tiny ...

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