Beneath the waves of the South Pacific lies Zealandia, a submerged landmass spanning nearly two million square miles. Often ...

Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...

Blind spiders and whip scorpions, the future of climate change, photosynthesis in the dark – here's what the deepest places ...

We are living on a planet already hotter and more unstable than at any time in human history. Pretending otherwise will only ...

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

Three earthquakes hit in the region recently, with one reported as felt from more than a thousand miles away, according to ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

The image below, courtesy of the USGS Latest Earthquakes website, shows the location of both earthquakes as the orange circles southwest of Lompoc. The image below, also courtesy of the USGS ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how ... while geologists have to use a definition. And geological research in recent years has made defining continental boundaries less simple ...

The North China Craton (NCC) is a very old and stable geological structure, experiencing deformations since the Mesozoic era.

Other recent and forthcoming publications resulting from this project have been led by Boise State graduate student, Thomas ...