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

An enormous area of the Earth’s crust has torn and slumped, dropping about 5 kilometers (3 miles). We’ve only just noticed ...

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

The discovery, made just off the coast of Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean, shows that a section of the oceanic crust is ...

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

You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items ...

At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow. Scientists in Amsterdam have found that this same kind of behavior happens at a ...

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

Once considered geologically impossible, earthquakes in stable regions like Utah and Groningen can actually occur due to long ...

The world's unrelenting need for energy, as well as increasingly warm temperatures, is making the need for clean sources of power abundantly clear. And while solar, wind, and hydropower are all ...

An artistic reconstruction of Earth during the Hadean eon (~4.5 billion years ago). Intense volcanic activity, heat from accretion, and frequent impacts kept the young Earth in a molten state. This ...

A new geological model revolutionizes a century of theories: a rigid wedge of mantle keeps the Himalayas standing.