For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

Hold onto your sense of balance. Scientists have found fresh proof that Earth doesn't just drift through space — sometimes, ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

Craving a novel Evergreen State adventure this summer? Saddle up your bike and ride the Loowit Tier, a 197-mile mountain bike ...

No one knows exactly when or why the Earth's surface broke into pancake-like slabs that grind and crash against one another, forming mountains ... forms today [through plate tectonics]," O'Neill ...

A recent NASA-funded study has unveiled groundbreaking details about Venus’ crust that challenge previous assumptions about ...

The state's segment of Orogenesis, a bikepacking route from B.C. to the tip of Baja, was just unveiled. When complete, it ...

Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan ... and is eventually unleashed in the form of earthquakes around that tectonic plate boundary. The Elsinore is a very long fault.

Below California’s famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan ... and is eventually unleashed in the form of earthquakes around that tectonic plate boundary. The Elsinore is a very long fault.

On Earth, volcanoes spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and the gas is absorbed by surface waters - mainly the ocean - and combines with elements such as calcium to form limestone rock. Through ...

and the gas is absorbed by surface waters — mainly the ocean — and combines with elements such as calcium to form limestone rock. Through the geological process called plate tectonics ...