A multinational team has traced subtle geological clues that point to a process still unfolding, even if at a glacial pace.

The Foundation of Mountain Building Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the ...

Recent scientific revelations have upended the long-held belief that the rift between Africa and Asia, specifically through ...

The tectonic plates under Africa and Asia are slowly drifting apart, as the Gulf of Suez that separates these two land masses ...

For millions of years, scientists believed the rift between Africa and Asia had ceased its tectonic pull. But recent findings ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

A new study shows that climate shapes the land and can change where earthquakes happen and when volcanoes erupt.