Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

McArie Island, located between New Zealand and Antarctica, is a geological treasure that offers a glimpse into Earth’s deep past. Unlike most islands, McArie is composed entirely of oceanic crust and ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.