John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

KOCHI: Twenty years ago — on December 26, 2004 — deep beneath the Indian Ocean near the island of Sumatra, a 1,300km-long rupture occurred on the faultline betw ...

Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of the Indian ... Earth's tectonic plates like ...

This voyaged marked the height of Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean. 1415: The Emperor decides to move the Chinese court from Nanjing to Beijing. 1416: Repairs on the Grand Canal are completed.

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

A recently published study in Science challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth ...

But when did Earth's surface splinter into tectonic plates? And when did those plates ... For example, the Indian subcontinent collided with southern Asia a mere 55 million years ago, and many ...

Scientists believe shifting tectonic plates are leading to the creation of a new ocean, the world's sixth. The geological development results from two land masses slowly moving apart in Africa.

The Ring of Fire is a string of Pacific volcanoes. Eruptions are a constant threat for Indonesia and other nations ...

The mediterranean sea straddles two tectonic plates and is lined by large towns and cities. We need to take the tsunami ...