At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and its discovery supports a theory about the birth ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

Only limited evidence of sea level changes over the ... to estimate past sea level changes on the basis of shifting plate tectonic speeds, it covers a more recent period at a finer resolution ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.