Learn how subduction zones form, drive massive earthquakes, create volcanoes, and shape Earth’s surface through powerful ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

The Andes Mountains: The Andes Mountains are a prime example of a continental-oceanic subduction zone, where the Nazca Plate ...

New research reveals the Indian tectonic plate beneath the Himalayas is not a solid slab but is warping and tearing. This ...

Faced with the perplexity of our current social, political and ecological crises, the triennial proposes a new imaginary for ...

Seismologists have long feared that a powerful quake is overdue on the major tectonic faults that ring Bangladesh. They now ...

Snapshots from six computer simulations illustrating the distinct tectonic regimes of terrestrial planets, including the newly discovered ...

A new study reveals surprising clues about the beginnings of subduction on Earth. The Hadean Eon, which lasted from 4.6 to ...