Deep within the Earth’s mantle, rhythmic pulses of hot lava are emerging on the surface, offering a rare glimpse into the ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.

Somewhere between Google Earth glitches and ancient prophecy, a new kind of internet mystery has taken hold. It doesn’t come ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

Nevada is becoming a major producer of lithium, thanks to topography, climate, and geologic serendipity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

You would have a hard time finding these common Earth rocks on our neighboring planets. Here’s what makes our landscapes so unique. Limestone landscapes, like this one in the Stone Forest in ...

Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, ...

From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on Earth with such strength and permanence since the 1950s, that a special team of scientists says a new geologic … ...

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...