Kamchatka Peninsula: Russia's Restless Eastern Edge 8 earthquake struck at a depth of 35 km off the far eastern coast of ...

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Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...