Sinopec, China's largest oil refiner, on Monday announced the discovery of two major shale oilfields in the east of the ...

A geologically dynamic region in the Great Rift Valley is closely watched by scientists as a fascinating natural laboratory.

Scientists see it as a fascinating natural laboratory that will culminate in a north-south continental split - and ultimately ...

is a strategic move to exploit and identify shale oil reserves in the country's continental rift basins. Shale oil mainly refers to liquid hydrocarbons trapped in formations of shale rock that can ...

Exiled Russian analysts say Moscow is reframing Europe as its primary adversary with long-held certainties about US military ...

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully deployed a French spy satellite in its first fully operational launch on Thursday, ...

Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.

ocean basins that open as continents break apart during rifting, allowing the mantle to rise as the overlying continental crust is thinned and eventually split (for example in the Atlantic Ocean ...

ocean basins that open as continents break apart during rifting, allowing the mantle to rise as the overlying continental crust is thinned and eventually split (for example in the Atlantic Ocean ...