Ocean floor map interactive: Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has released a free, scrollable version of the 1977 ...

Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu, and Isabeau Levito comprise the U.S. Women's Figure Skating team, also known as the 'Blade Angels' Team USA's Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu, and Isabeau Levito received superstar ...

Keeping an eye on geophysical instruments inside Alvin. “It’s much more crowded than it looks,” Atwater said of the interior of the submersible Credit: Courtesy of Tanya Atwater This piece is part of ...

We begin the new year by taking a deep dive into an even deeper subject: the mysteries of geologic time. We leave the turbulent present to visit the past, exploring the West long before it became the ...

Many historians have thought that U.S. Navy funding of oceanography paved the way for plate tectonic theory. By funding extensive investigations of the deep ocean, Navy support enabled scientists to ...

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Students learn about the compositional layers of the Earth and how they interact, including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and climate. They consider the importance of sustainability, ...

Abstract: Understanding tectonic plate movements is crucial for geological and seismological research. This study employs GPS stress vector analysis to map and interpret the tectonic plate movements.

Among the inner solar system, Earth is the only planet that experiences plate tectonics. A new study, using convection models, shows that Earth’s collision with the protoplanet Theia some 4.5 billion ...

This story has been corrected. The dates of the Canterbury earthquakes have been corrected to 2010 and 2011. The story originally stated 2020 and 2021. There are faultlines throughout Aotearoa, and ...

Schematic of a convergent boundary. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The Earth’s crust is not continuous, in one piece — it’s cracked into larger pieces called tectonic plates. Tectonic plates are basically ...