Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

New Mexico geologist and author Magdalena Sandoval Donahue discusses the interesting geology of the Santa Fe National Forest ...

A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

Leka, a 500-million-year-old geological wonder in Trøndelag, offers a unique travel experience. Explore the island's dramatic ...

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, resides a belt of volcanic rock that displays a blend of dark and light ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

On Earth, plate tectonics allows the recycling of the crust into the mantle, regulating its thickness. This process, called subduction, is absent on Venus. Yet, Venus' crust does not exceed 40 miles ...

"It resets the playing field for how the geology, crust and atmosphere on Venus work together." Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering ...

The film explores the dynamic nature of Earth's crust, detailing how it has evolved over billions of years. Initially formed from molten rock, the crust cools and hardens, leading to the creation ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

A crust thicker than the surrounding oceanic crust. Well-defined limits around a large enough area. The first three requirements are found in just about every geology textbook.