The main process behind geological faults is plate tectonics, which describes the large-scale movement of seven major and many minor plates that make up Earth’s lithosphere.The Earth’s crust ...

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

But the geologic process that put gold nuggets there in the first place was a mystery. Now, a new study published today in Nature Geoscience has come up with a convincing, and surprising, answer ...

Geological process at work is called isostatic rebound; Sept 30 (Reuters) - Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain - towering 5.5 miles (8.85 km) above sea level - and is actually still growing.

After analyzing earthquake data and imaging deep rock formations, researchers concluded that this geological process was currently occurring in the central region of the mountain range and appears ...

Ridge subduction is an important geological process that triggers volcanic activity, thermal metamorphism (the alteration of rocks by heat), and hydrothermal activity (chemical reactions between ...

The geological process at work, they said, is called isostatic rebound. Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain - towering 5.5 miles (8.85 km) above sea level - and is still growing. While it ...

First, the populations become physically separated, often by a long, slow geological process like an uplift of land, the movement of a glacier, or formation of a body of water.