In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports ...

Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate ...

Most people think of Alaska as a land of glaciers, bears, and raw wilderness. What gets talked about far less is the ground ...

Off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, where the Cocos Plate grinds beneath the Caribbean Plate, microorganisms that may have been entombed in rock for millions of years are making an unlikely return ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Oct 29, 2025, 03:16pm EDT Nov 01, 2025, 01:11pm EDT For the first ...

A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

Schematic tectonic evolution model for the Wutai Complex during Late Archean (a) Subduction setting (~2543 Ma); shows subduction-related metasomatic agents which influenced the lithological and ...

Map of the Earth showing tectonic plates. Early Earth likely had no plate tectonics, but a solid outer crust with no tectonic activity covered the entire planet. After being broken up by convection ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The vast stretch of ocean between the Americas and Europe may be about to close soon—on a geological timescale. Just ...