Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

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

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Continental clues: Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet’s history, ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.