With the formation of this ocean, Africa's map will be redrawn, and its ecosystem will undergo demographic changes.

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, the Neotethys plate is tearing apart, dragging Earth's crust downward. This shift may ...

New research reveals a “major mystery” deep beneath the planet’s bodies of water and crust, and now experts are rethinking what they know about Earth’s terrain. They suggest it could even ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly ... such as below the western Pacific Ocean. As a result, it is unclear how they ended up there.

This discovery was made possible through a groundbreaking technique that maps seismic waves traveling through the Earth's ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a long, winding roadway that corkscrews down into the Earth,” she tells The Scientist. By ...

dragging down the Earth's crust and forming a vast depression that has accumulated millions of years' worth of sediment. However, this process is not uniform and thus sections of the sinking plate ...

The Somali plate is moving away from the Nubian plate, pulling apart the crust of the Earth. This activity will ultimately generate a new ocean basin as the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden submerges the ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

Sinking in one place leads to plates moving apart in other places. The movement of the plates and the activity inside the Earth, is called the theory of plate tectonics.