The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

As two of Earth's great tectonic plates slowly crash together, the Mediterranean Sea is likely to be wiped off the face of ...

For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only ...

There are also concerns about the area’s geological stability, as it sits at the convergence of the Indian and Eurasian continental plates and is considered tectonically active. An earthquake could ...

“The lithosphere is broken up into seven very large continental- and ocean-sized ... occurs along subduction zones, which are convergent plate boundaries where two tectonic plates come together ...

Continental configurations have changed ... Beginning some 100 million years ago, these two plates began converging, gradually closing the ocean basins between them. The Alps Mountain range ...

"It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks ... de Fuca Plate being pushed beneath the larger North American Plate at a convergent plate boundary known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

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

According to the USGS, “Seismicity in the Himalaya dominantly results from the continental collision of the India and Eurasia plates, which are converging at a relative rate of 40-50 mm/yr.” 2. At ...

The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake occurred offshore central Chile and ruptured ∼500 km along the megathrust fault resulting from the oceanic Nazca plate subducting beneath the continental ... arrow ...

This technique continues to this day. The USGS states: “Seismicity in the Himalaya dominantly results from the continental collision of the India and Eurasia plates, which are converging at a relative ...