A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the ...

ARC Early Career Industry Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Ben Mather receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adriana Dutkiewicz ...

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major earthquakes. The hidden processes that drive earthquakes cause a lot of commotion ...

A study of the East African Rift reveals that ancient heating and dehydration can strengthen continental crust, reshaping how and where continents break apart.

A fragment of a long-lost tectonic plate is sliding under the North American continent in the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone, scientists have discovered. This leftover plate fragment ...

Be sure to watch GMSA@9 on Wednesdays, when KSAT Meteorologist Sarah Spivey demonstrates and explains the science behind it.

Still, sea-level variation—also known as eustasy—can stem from very different causes. One of the most important is the volume of ocean basins themselves. Because the surface area of continents has ...

WASHINGTON: Scientists have created the most detailed map yet of the terrain hidden beneath Antarctica vast ice sheet, revealing a complex landscape of mountains, valleys, plains, canyons, and tens of ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic eruptions, played the central role in atmospheric carbon swings and long-term ...

But… academia is demanding, requiring full-time commitment—something not always compatible with starting a family. So I made the tough decision to shift career ...