The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Initially, the Earth's surface was dominated by molten ... These lighter materials floated above the denser basaltic crust, much like oil floats on water. In a new study published in the journal ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, an ancient oceanic plate is tearing apart, dragging the Earth’s crust with it. What was ...

An accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around the Greek island of Santorini since 24 January. The ...

The Pangean-era structure "It's being torn apart in real time" keeps the planet on edge. The ocean plate is now being torn ...

As the process continued, the descending oceanic plate functions like an anchor, dragging down the Earth's crust and forming a vast depression that has accumulated millions of years' worth of ...

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

An accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around Santorini since 24 January. The seismic activity is concentrated in the area between the islands of Santorini and Amorgos, with ...

New research suggests an ancient hotspot helped shape the Great Lakes, challenging traditional formation theories.

It is found in the depths of Indian Ocean and named as the gravity hole or Indian Ocean geoid low, an anomaly where gravity ...