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

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

In a new paper titled ‘Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic’, Duarte and his team write: “The aged oceanic ...

Two BGSU students and their professor will spend much of spring semester in Antarctica studying undersea volcanoes.

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

New research suggests an ancient hotspot helped shape the Great Lakes, challenging traditional formation theories.

Why these invisible organisms generate a significant portion of oxygen, absorb vast amounts of carbon, and purify water ...

A new study from the University of Houston could change the way we understand how lakes were formed.Aibing Li, a UH seismologist and co-author of the ...

It took 250 years for the Laschamps reversal to take place and it stayed in the unusual orientation for about 440 years. At most, Earth's magnetic field may have remained at 25 percent of its current ...

Oceanic plates, being denser ... According to this theory, the lithosphere (the Earth's rigid outer layer) is divided into several tectonic plates that float and move slowly on the viscous mantle.

‘If rifting continues, new basaltic oceanic crust may form along the ... Others have suggested that the lithosphere, a layer of the Earth’s mantle that ‘floats’ on the more fluid-like ...