Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

New geological study shows Spain and Portugal are moving northward at 4-6mm annually as the Iberian Peninsula undergoes clockwise rotation towards the Eurasian tectonic plate ...

Scientists say parts of Spain may be quietly absorbing underground tectonic pressure, helping explain scattered tremors across the region.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have discovered an ancient "ghost" plume lurking beneath Oman. The magma plume is trapped beneath a thick portion of ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet some of these giant structures vanished deep into the mantle, hidden from ...

Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. They are an extension of the Greater Caucasus mountain belt, which also stretches along Russia's border ...

The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s rotating clockwise at a pace too small for humans to feel, yet large ...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland. This area is the boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, which move apart ~ 2.5 cm/year over millennia. When plate tectonics first emerged ...

A study claims that Spain and Portugal are rotating clockwise and moving by anywhere between four and six millimetres each year ...