The successful development of sustainable georesources for the energy transition is a key challenge for humankind in the 21st ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nevada State Museum in Carson City has a new geology exhibit, according to a news release. The exhibit, scheduled to open ...

Another prong of the administration’s actions is an attempt to influence what research is funded. Russell Vought, the head of ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Constructive plate margins close constructive plate marginAn area where two tectonic plates are moving away from one another. are where tectonic plates pull apart due to convection currents in the ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago has found evidence via lab experiments ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...