The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...
If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half. In a Frontiers in Earth Science study published yesterday, an ...
That would have enabled more of this organic carbon—and carbonate accumulating in shallow water around Columbia—to be ...
The magnitude-6.0 temblor that shook the Hawaiian islands Friday night caused power outages, major damage to homes and rockslides that temporarily blocked roadways in South Kona, where its epicenter ...
Deep beneath the Central African Plateau, something vast is stirring. In Zambia's remote Kafue Rift, hot springs are ...
A major Hayward fault quake could shake some Bay Area communities harder than expected because of the ground beneath them, ...
More evidence is pointing toward a tear in a massive tectonic plate.
The magnitude-6.0 temblor that shook the Hawaiian islands Friday night caused power outages, major damage to homes and ...
They’re raiders of the lost ark. Archaeologists could be one step closer to locating Noah’s Ark’s final resting spot after noticing a peculiar feature on a 440-year-old world map called the ...
A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...
The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of these ...
Remote reefs off Australia’s northwest coast may be remnants of an ancient reef system that helped shape modern marine life.