Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already forming a sixth ocean in East Africa.

Located in the western section of the COAB, the western Junggar area is located at the intersection of three continental plates: Siberia, Kazakhstan and Tarim. It was formed by the aggregation of a ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

The ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) is a critical region where various physical processes interact, influencing ocean dynamics, climate, and weather patterns. This layer is characterized by ...

About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from what is now Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica. This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea ...

In Monday's issue of Nature Geoscience, a team of UK-based researchers tackle a big one: Mars' dichotomy, the somewhat nebulous boundary between ... the time when an ocean might have occupied ...

It usually spreads out as a gently sloping area, until it drops sharply at the continental slope. The boundary of the shelf is defined in terms of the foot of the slope or the line where the depth ...

Recent scientific advancements have brought us closer to understanding the complex interactions between the Antarctic ice sheet and the Southern Ocean, responsible for significant sea level changes.

Tanzania and some parts of Ethiopia would form a new continent – called ‘the Nubian continent’ – separated by the world’s sixth ocean. Ken MacDonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa ...