Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

The rocks at the surface of the modern Earth are broadly divided into two types: felsic and mafic. Felsic rocks are generally relatively low density — for a rock —... Scientists are among the ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

Earth’s surface is made up of different sections called tectonic plates. Most mountains are fold mountains, which means they’re created when two tectonic plates collide, and they force the ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

Deeply hidden in Earth’s mantle there are two huge ‘islands’ with the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht ...

Scientists from Utrecht University have discovered two enormous structures deep in Earth's mantle, suggesting that these ...