Except perhaps for some remote island dwellers, most people have a natural tendency to view continents as fundamental, permanent and even characteristic features of Earth. One easily forgets that the ...

The initiation of plate subduction on Earth may occur before 3 billion years ago or even Hadean. Subduction is the core process of plate tectonics, which gradually lead to the co-evolution of ...

Continents grow through subduction magmatism and collision of arcs and other buoyant crustal fragments at their margins. Poorly understood, such collisions are of broad scientific interest because ...

Scientists are observing a new ocean forming in Africa's Afar region, a unique geological hotspot. Early magnetic surveys from 1968, combined with recent data from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, reveal ...

Research shows the Pacific hemisphere is losing heat faster than the African hemisphere. The heat is from Earth’s molten interior, which causes continental drift. Landmass traps more heat than ...

Geoscientists have revealed information about how continents were generated on Earth more than 2.5 billion years ago -- and how those processes have continued within the last 70 million years to ...

Note: This post is the third in a three-part series – please see Part 1 and Part 2 from earlier today before continuing – you'll need the context. The numbering of the figures in this post continues ...

This season produced strong hurricanes, but it was the first year in a decade without one making landfall in the U.S.