A continent rose thrice above the Indian Ocean, only to disappear beneath the waves each time

Scientists have unearthed a seam of precious metal on the Scottish island of Rum. Duncan Pirrie, a geologist at the Camborne School of Mines, UK, found grains of platinum in the sediment of streams

Bacteria thrive beneath glaciers where their activity can erode rocks, say Canadian and British geologists. Martin Sharp of the University of Alberta in the UK and his colleagues found colonies of

Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said they have discovered an active underwater volcano in the Samoa Islands. While volcanos are all over the Pacific ocean floor, an active one

Experts from the National Vulcanology and Seismology Institute (OVSICORI) said last week that the major earthquake expected to hit Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula on the Pacific coast since 1991 will

Experts : Sunday night's quake that centred in the central Himalayan region bears proof of the continuing northward movement of the Indian landmass since it rammed into Eurasia 80 million years ago,

Seismological experts are closely monitoring the situation in more than two dozen villages in Pandhana tehsil in Khandwa district of Western Madhya Pradesh from where 1,170 tremors and underground

The Himalayas are the result of a powerful collusion of the earths plates in the snow-capped mountain range, a report said today. The tremendous power of the plates grinding against each other not

Scientists find the oldest life form in Indian geological history

The earth deep underneath quake-hit Greece and Turkey is fracturing like a pane of glass, increasing the possibility of further tremors in the region, a British seismologist said. "It's a bit like a