An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

Chef Bangari Harish Kumar, affectionately known as Chef Bangari, has transformed his early passion for food into a celebrated ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

While the tsunami warnings were issued for U.S. territories Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, there is no threat to the U.S ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

Decoding the Indian Plate’s Hidden Movements Unlike dense oceanic plates, continental plates like the Indian Plate resist subduction into Earth's mantle. Scientists have long debated its ...

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