Latitude shapes climate in a basic but powerful way. It controls the angle of sunlight, which helps decide whether a place ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years ...

Scientists have recorded the process of disintegration of the subduction zone. A study led by specialists from Louisiana State University and the Lamont-Doherty Observatory at Columbia University has ...

Discover 25 hidden geological wonders you can only see from space! Explore Earth's breathtaking formations, from the Eye of ...

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

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

Off the coast of Vancouver Island, scientists have captured unusually sharp images of a tectonic plate that is breaking apart as it sinks beneath North America. They describe a slab drop of about five ...

The Earth’s crust is constantly changing. It’s currently made of many huge rock slabs called tectonic plates—seven major ones along with many more smaller plates—that fit together like puzzle pieces ...

LONDON — The puzzle pieces of Earth's rocky crust are slowly and steadily moving — a process known as plate tectonics. These dynamic movements helped to create the habitats and climate that fostered ...

The researchers studied the East Pilbara Craton formation in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, seen here. - Roger Norman/Alamy Stock Photo The puzzle pieces of Earth’s rocky crust are slowly and ...