The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic underwater landscape shaped by tectonic activity and volcanic processes. Among ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

Creating new unitary councils could disrupt some of the biggest social care systems in the country, writes an independent ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

This earthquake was the result of a strike-slip fault movement along the Sagaing Fault line, which runs north to south within ...

Layers of lava build up over time, creating volcanoes. Tectonic plates are key. They are large pieces of the Earth’s crust which can move towards, away from, or alongside one another ...

The earth's upper layer is split into different sections, called tectonic plates, which are all moving constantly. Some move ...