Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

With tectonic plates bumping and grinding against each other, Earth is a pretty active planet. But when did this activity begin? A new study from Yale University claims to have found evidence that ...

Scientists are among the millions of die-hard Game of Thrones fans digesting the show’s finale today. The striking landscape of Game of Thrones has led some researchers to build climate simulations ...

Plate tectonics is a feature that, as far as we know, is unique to Earth. The outer surface of our planet is divided into 15 rigid blocks of crust that push up against each other. The movement of ...

The Beemerville Volcano gets its name from a section of Wantage, but also is known as Rutan Hill. Space Farms Zoo and Museum, the region’s best-known business, is located about four miles to the south ...

Generally speaking, it’s easy enough to make sense of the last few million years of climate patterns—the world looked much as it does today, so changes in greenhouse gas concentrations or ocean ...

From the formation of continents to the creation of mountain ranges, it took Earth a long time to get where it is today. Leave it to SciShow to explain four billion years’ worth of history in less ...

Researchers probe deep secrets of trapped inclusions in garnet sand from Papua New Guinea. On a beach on a remote island in eastern Papua New Guinea, a country located in the southwestern Pacific to ...

A practicing geologist can benefit from the history of geology professionally in two main ways: by learning about past mistakes so as not to repeat them and by finding out about different ways to ...