Scientists map over 200,000 underwater hills using SWOT satellite technology New discoveries in oceanography reveal extensive underwater terrain features and their significance to Earths evolution.

It presents plate tectonics as a multifaceted, interdisciplinary theory that unites many different geological observations and processes into a harmonious model so that readers grasp how the outer ...

The East African Rift System is a crack in the Earth's crust stretching over 3,000 kilometres from Ethiopia to the southern ...

A new ocean is slowly forming in East Africa as the African, Arabian, and Somali plates drift apart. This geological shift, ...

The giant plate boundary that is the Hikurangi Subduction Zone has the potential to cause magnitude-8.0 “megathrust” ...

Before these discoveries, plate tectonics had foundered as a theory precisely because no one could provide a scientific explanation for how crust was recycled, transformed, or reshaped on an ...

The world has always experienced extreme events, but those events are made worse by climate change, this environmental ...

GPS enables accurate monitoring of tectonic plate movements ... at both continents further cement the theory. The gradual formation of a new ocean in the East African Rift highlights the ever ...

That a sullen City and silent Chamber may realise that this shift in the plate tectonics of local politics was almost ... First we must disabuse ourselves of the notion that ‘the Great Man theory’ of ...

The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 10:44 a.m., was under the Pacific Ocean, about 65 miles off the coast of Eureka ...

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