New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

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 ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

This in-depth breakdown explores the scientific credibility of Plato’s Atlantis, drawing heavily from Randall Carlson’s ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

Salameh, E. and Yaseen, M. (2025) Structural Elements and Seismic Activity in Jordan and Its Levant Surroundings. Journal of ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

What makes this even more intriguing is the suspected cause of the dripping: a long-lost oceanic tectonic plate called the Farallon Plate. Although it has been subducted—pulled under the North ...

Despite being tied together beneath the surface, these regions diverge sharply above it. Iceland and the Azores are ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct into Earth’s mantle. Compositional anomalies, formed millions of years ago, ...

Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel Earth's surface is divided into several tectonic plates, and earthquakes generally occur at convergent plate boundaries, where two or ...