An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets. Using advanced numerical models, the team systematically classified for the ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

The Himalayan syntaxes are the arcuate termini of the India–Asia collision zone, where the convergent plates form pronounced bends at the eastern and western corners of the orogen. These regions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (jacus/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Hundreds of millions of years ago, our world looked very different from the way it does today.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Are we alone, and if so, why? So far, the search for ...

The assembly and fragmentation of Gondwana was governed by a complex interplay of crustal rifting, magmatic activity, sedimentation and collisional orogeny. Modern geochronological techniques, notably ...

1. A lithospheric-thickening model for the Indo-Asian collision / Gregory Houseman and Philip England -- 2. Neotectonics of Asia: thin-shell finite-element models with faults / Xianghong Kong and ...