The same type of technology used by motorists to help them navigate city roadways can now be used to detect and measure the smallest movements in the Earth’s crust, an international group of ...

According to SpaceRef, "Earth's outer shell consists of about 15 shifting blocks of crust," that have been moving over millions of years to form the continents and unique landforms that currently ...

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

In 2021, geologists animated a video that shows how Earth's tectonic plates moved over the last billion years. The plates move together and apart at the speed of fingernail growth, and the video ...

Scientists have recently unearthed a significant discovery, revealing unexpected movements occurring deep within the Earth’s crust, specifically 2,700km beneath the surface. This discovery has shed ...

A study by Gondwana Research confirms that the Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise due to the movement of the African ...

The rotation of Earth’s solid inner core may have recently paused relative to the mantle and crust and now appears to be reversing direction, Nikk Ogasa reported in “Earth’s inner core may ‘reverse’ ...

Scientists long have focused on how climate and vegetation allowed human ancestors to evolve in Africa. Now, University of Utah geologists are calling renewed attention to the idea that ground ...

Nowhere can escape climate change. Even the Earth's crust is feeling the impact of rising temperatures and melting ice. Reading time 3 minutes Both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets—the world’s ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust goes through cycles, with periods of increased crust ...

The plates of the Earth's crust perform complicated movements that can be attributed to quite simple mechanisms. That is the short version of the explanation of a rift that began to tear the world ...