Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

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

What will Earth look like 250 million years from now? In this video, we journey into the deep future to explore a day on our ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

Planet Earth Geology Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic plate to another News By Evan Howell published 14 June 2025 ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq ...

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

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains of streaked gray stone on the eastern ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The ...

Tectonic Plates Can ‘Infect’ One Another with Earth-Shaking Subduction Zones Evidence from Earth’s deep past suggests dramatic subduction zones can spread like a contagion Evan Howell ...

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