Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal ...

Their discovery changes our perception of underwater life. At depths of over 8,200 feet (2,500 meters), scientists have uncovered a universe teeming with animal life beneath the oceanic crust. These ...

Credit: NIGPAS Through analysis of basalt samples obtained by the human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Shen Hai Yong Shi (TS-10 expedition), Nan and his colleagues have reported, for the first time, the ...

Caltech researchers introduce a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to study earthquakes and ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study Earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between ...

In plate tectonics, pancake-like chunks of brittle crust and upper mantle ride on the hotter ... In a geologic balancing act, dense oceanic crust is destroyed at subduction zones, where one ...

The Upper Crust at Preston Station has had plans for a significant refurbishment approved by the city council. The bakery and coffee shop on platform four – the departure point for West Coast Mainline ...