An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it could both swim rapidly and move along rough ... More Acidic Oceans May Affect the Sex of ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

Researchers Yao Yu, David T. Sandwell, and Gerald Dibarboure, who published “Abyssal marine tectonics from the SWOT mission” in Science last month, are among the scientists already producing ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, Harvard researchers think they have a good explanation for ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know ...

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Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that rock geometry. This includes the movements of the ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.

Marine biology is the study of life in the oceans and brackish waters, which ranges from archaea and bacteria to marine mammals, and includes organisms such as corals that affect the shape of the ...