India's seismic hazard zones have been revised with the introduction of Zone VI, representing the highest risk, primarily encompassing the Himalayan arc. The updated classification now includes five ...

"The ocean surface is definitely not flat. It is constantly changing as wind, waves and swells produce surface undulations, daily tidal fluctuations raise and lower the average height." ...

Dramatic fjords, zodiac landings in remote communities, and locals who welcome you with homemade fish cakes—this is ...

Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...

About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...

Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African crust resurfaced 40 million years ago far away from the sinking zone. How this ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

A small mare ridge in Northeast Mare Imbrium taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Scientists have produced the first global map and ...

Your excellent article “ Continental shift ” (January 2026) reminded me of a series of lectures I attended in a class in the environmental sciences department at the University of Virginia about 1975.

The King's Trough complex, about 1,000 kilometers (roughly 600 miles) off the coast of Portugal, is known as the 'Grand ...

Over the last few decades substantial progress has been made in understanding the structure of tectonically active rifts, failed rifts, and ancient passive ...