What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of history's greatest animal migrations.

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Climate change is causing a significant redistribution of mass on Earth due to melting ice sheets, leading to a shift in the ...

“The shallow seaway closed several million years before it otherwise likely would have due to these specific processes — mantle convection and corresponding changes in dynamic topography ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

The closure of this marine corridor occurred millions of years earlier than expected due to these specific processes: mantle convection and changes in dynamic topography, Straume explained. Without ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...