Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown proto-microcontinent, the Davis Strait proto microcontinent, beneath the ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Scientists have discovered unusual deep earthquakes under the Sierra Nevada. This may indicate a peeling process in the Earth ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive ...

The groundbreaking discovery was detailed in a study published last year in the journal Gondwana Research by researchers from the University of Derby in England and Sweden's Uppsala University. Read ...

Between 61 and 33 million years ago, Earth’s crust fractured, initiating a period of continental rifting and seafloor spreading. Researchers have identified a partially submerged continental ...