Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...
A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the ...
Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.
With less water in the lakes, especially Lake Turkana, it has become easier for the great rift beneath to move.
How moving tectonic plates and rising heat from deep within Earth created one of the ocean’s largest canyons. On land, giant canyons like the Grand Canyon are usually the slow handiwork of rivers that ...
The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated.
It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, ...
A hidden shard of ancient crust has been detected where California’s San Andreas system collides with the Cascadia subduction zone, reshaping how I understand the tectonic engine of the West Coast.
Climate change is usually associated with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide, but our planet's surface also plays a major ...
Scientists have traditionally focused on volcanic arcs as the main natural source of atmospheric carbon dioxide. These form ...
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