For billions of years, Earth's continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

A recent report estimates that New Mexico has the potential to produce substantial power from its geothermal resources. But ...

In July 2024, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Calama, Chile, damaging buildings and causing power outages. The country has ...

For decades geologists thought the slow rise of South Africa’s southern coast was driven by forces deep below—buoyant plumes ...

Hidden in the mountains of northern China lies one of Earth’s most spectacular geological masterpieces—the Zhangye Danxia ...

Diamonds present at the birth of the Okavango Delta have a lasting connection to this landscape and are playing a unique role in its conservation today. 3:41 Geological time and tectonic forces have ...

The Mount Etna volcano is a dynamic and complex system shaped by the interplay between magmatic processes and tectonic forces. Recent studies have revealed that deformation of the volcanic edifice is ...

Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky worlds that formed about the same time in the inner solar system; however, ...

Ground fissures and tectonic faults represent critical structural features within sedimentary basins, where the interplay of regional stress fields, depositional environments and, at times, human ...

Modern stressors can still trigger tremors and quakes in dormant faults Earthquakes can be felt further from their epicenter on the East Coast than out west due to the crust being older and more ...

In earthquake country, the meandering paths of quake faults easily get seared into memory in the same way as a California freeway map. An earthquake fault is a fracture in the ground between two ...