These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

A new research reveals hidden 'sunken worlds' in Earth's mantle, offering clues about ancient crust and tectonic mysteries.

Deeply hidden in Earth’s mantle there are two huge ‘islands’ with the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht ...

Construction on the world's most expensive infastructure project has been ... The development brings a host of unprecedented challenges, being located along an earthquake-prone tectonic plate boundary ...

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...