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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over millions of years, the African continent will cleave in two, and scientists say a new ocean will one day fill the gap. The Afar region is most famous for being one of the hottest and most ...