A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

North America’s geological core has persisted ... a massive block of continental rock that withstands the natural recycling system of plate tectonics. Typically, scientists think of cratons ...

New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

Ice Melting and Plate Tectonics The geoscientists based their simulation’s start at 26,000 years ago, when the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which covered much of North America, started receding. Melting ice ...

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit western Texas on Saturday, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) ...

Volcanoes are among nature’s most powerful forces — breathtaking yet potentially catastrophic. According to a visual produced ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely ... the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...

"The National Seismic Hazard model shows that there is a 15% chance of a large (over magnitude 8) earthquake happening ...

at the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plate boundary. Severe ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake caused landslides and sediment-laden turbidity currents that can be ...