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Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists from Utrecht University, the UK, and the US has resulted in ...

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Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

WASHINGTON, USA — A "swarm" of small earthquakes near the summit of Mount Rainier Tuesday is no cause for concern, according ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

T he Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is an alien sight to see, but experiencing it is another story. The lowest point in ...