A fiery force beneath the ocean is reshaping Tonga’s Home Reef, growing an island through eruptions over the past few years.

Geology’s Theory of Everything continues successfully to defend its title. ■ Curious about the world? To enjoy our mind-expanding science coverage, sign up to Simply Science, our weekly ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

that it will probably be interesting to students of oceanic phenomena to publish in NATURE the results obtained at one spot in the Atlantic, at periods extending over as much as twenty-one years.

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

Their findings reveal that, deep beneath the Earth’s surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate—once the seafloor between the Arabian and Eurasian continents—is currently breaking off in a horizontal ...

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate – the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents – is breaking ...

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth’s surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate – the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents – is breaking ...

Their research has revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate—the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents—is ...