This video excerpt from NOVA: "Deadliest Earthquakes" shows how Earth’s crust is made up of rocky slabs, called plates, and how those plates are constantly moving. As molten rock rises from Earth's ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. An eons-long collision that created the Himalayas, the world's tallest mountain range, may also be ...

In the classic example of mountain-building, the Indian and Asian continental plates crashed -- and continue colliding today -- to form the world's largest and highest geologic structures: the ...

The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move into the deepest reaches of the Earth is published in Nature today. Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one ...

Tibet may be tearing in two beneath the rising Himalayas, with pieces of the continental plate peeling off like the lid off a tin of fish, researchers have discovered. According to new research ...

I have mentioned the compass direction south, 30 degrees west in earlier columns. That’s the pattern that shows up a lot in the Hudson Valley and also throughout the Catskills. Long, straight ...