Beneath the surface of the United States, the Earth's crust is gradually subsiding, creating a novel geological phenomenon.

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Biologists have listed more than 500 prey species of great horned owls throughout North and South America. These include the ...

The India-Asia continental collision and the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau have long been attributed to continuous Cenozoic convergence with two generic assumptions: the ongoing India-Asia collision ...

Researchers discover Earth's first crust, formed 4.5 billion years ago, had chemical features similar to modern continental crust ... University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, according ...

The split will change the world's continental makeup ... be just another move in this giant geological playbook," said IFL Science. "Whether we as a species will survive for long enough to ...

Their findings showed a strong correlation between wet areas of the MTZ and continental intraplate volcanism, with 42%–68% of intraplate volcanism occurring over more-water-saturated MTZ ...

Ned Rozell [email protected] is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.