All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.

New satellite data shows Tibet’s plates flow like a liquid. India-Eurasia collision pushes eastern Tibet eastward by up to 25 ...

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

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Deep inside Earth lies a hidden world of "intraterrestrials" that have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years — what ...

Science loves a good underdog story. Throughout history, brilliant minds have proposed ideas so outlandish, so contrary to ...

History is littered with scientific ideas that sounded ridiculous, even to experts, before reality caught up. From wild ...

Earthquakes and volcanism occur as a result of plate tectonics. The movement of tectonic plates themselves is largely driven by the process known as subduction. The question of how new active ...

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought.

The "beast" on Google Maps — called Leviathan, dragon, snake and more by some — is actually just a byproduct of the tectonic plates beneath our feet.

Movement in the Earth's tectonic plates indirectly triggers bursts of biodiversity in 36 million-year cycles by forcing sea levels to rise and fall, new research has shown. Movement in the Earth's ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.