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 ...

Rocks once buried deep in ancient subduction zones -- where tectonic plates collide -- could help scientists make better predictions of how these zones behave during the years between major ...

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 ...

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 ...