You might notice something unusual on the ground after a winter storm, white shapes that look like logs, Swiss rolls, or ...

When the plate boundary later moved farther south toward the modern Azores, the formation of the King’s Trough also came to a halt.” It’s a remarkable example of how activity deep within our planet’s ...

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet aligned with the planet’s rotation axis. This is what makes a magnetic compass ...