The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants can ...

Scientists have now discovered landforms created during the MPT, as glaciers retreated across what is now the North Sea. The new study relied on seismic data to locate possible areas for fossil fuel ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, because "it's ours." Who owns ...

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A map from the U.S. Geological Survey shows that 222 possible non-native species had the potential to spread in Georgia and ...

A light, 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...

The tremor struck at 6:34 p.m. and was located 2.3 miles northwest of Cobb, a census designated place 41 miles north of Santa ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 struck Lake County on New Year's Day, according to the U.S. Geological ...

Dorothy and Toto aren’t the only ones known to hitch a ride on a passing severe weather event. A map from the U.S. Geological ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego works to understand and protect the planet and find solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges. Humankind faces catastrophic changes in ...

has published a new geological bedrock map titled Preliminary Geologic Map of the Firehole Canyon 30’ x 60’ Quadrangle, Sweetwater County, Daggett County, Utah, and Moffat County, Colorado.

But since 1930, dozens quakes registering 0.5 or higher on the Richter's scale shook the Bayou State, according to maps from the U.S Geological Survey. A cluster of quakes shook Red River Parish ...