Scientists discovered a crack under the sea off Vancouver Island, NFZ in Cascadia region, that could alter Pacific subduction ...

The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth's crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, ...

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary interior. There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper mantle ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

LOS ANGELES (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A published study claims the Earth's crust is peeling. Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earth's crust is peeling away beneath California's Sierra Nevada ...

A deep, rhythmic pulse has been found surging like a heartbeat deep under Africa. At the Afar triple junction under Ethiopia, where three tectonic plates meet, molten magma pounds the planet's crust ...

New study reveals Earth’s crust collapse in action, offering rare insight into how tectonic plates fracture and reshape the planet.

While many science books would have you believe the Earth's lower mantle—the layer deep below the crust—is smooth, it's actually made up of a mountainous-like topography that moves and changes just ...

The unprecedented rates of warming and melting of vast ice masses in Greenland have also led to movements in the bedrock from ...

Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.

Extreme heat forged Earth’s continents billions of years ago, creating the stable foundation that made life possible.