The continents we know are not stable entities. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, their base undergoes ...

The Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains in South Africa, dating 3.6 billion years, offer one of Earth's oldest, best-preserved ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

A new study shows that climate shapes the land and can change where earthquakes happen and when volcanoes erupt.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological process where fragments of continents are slowly stripped from below and swept deep into the oceanic mantle, sparking volcanic activity in unexpected ...

Waves in Earth's mantle created by the rifting of continents may peel the planet's crust from below, feeding volcanoes in the middle of the ocean.

History’s gears are lubricated by gore. Witness America’s Revolutionary War, whose continuing reverberations have done more ...