About 400 kilometers northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

However, dating ridge subduction has been often difficult because the heat from this process destroys fossil records. To overcome this challenge, the researchers focused on Besshi-type VMS deposits ...

Both supercontinents formed over what is now the African ... They analysed the chemistry of 3,983 samples collected from mid-ocean ridges, where tectonic plates are spreading apart and magma ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

The result is a rift valley formed of depressions (or grabens ... offers critical insights into active geological processes like those at mid-ocean ridges. New technology, including GPS devices and ...