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Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

The three earthquakes that struck off the North Island’s east coast were felt more widely because of the way they ruptured, ...

An international team has identified 'relamination'—the deep reincorporation of buoyant continental crust detached from subducted plates—as a key mechanism in building continents from the Archean to ...

A groundbreaking study in Science Advances reveals that Earth's tectonic plates are breaking apart under the Cascadia ...

In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports long-buried subseafloor microbes back toward the seafloor, according to ...

Australia’s famous Twelve Apostles didn’t just erode into existence—they were slowly pushed up from the ocean floor by ...

Ancient tectonic plates continue to reshape the Earth's interior and reveal a deep connection to its global dynamics ...

A new geological study reveals Australia's Twelve Apostles were formed by tectonic plate movements lifting and tilting ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

A new scientific study published in “Seismological Research Letters,” a journal of the Seismological Society of America, offers important new insight into the 2023 Al Haouz earthquake, one of the most ...

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...