The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...

Tracing the Legacy of Pontus The Pontus plate was a key component of a much larger, interconnected system of tectonic plates that dominated the western Pacific region for over 150 million years.

About 150 million years ago, a massive tectonic mega-plate stretched across the Earth, spanning roughly a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean. Its jagged contours ran all the way through the ...

Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic plate to another. World's oldest rocks could shed light on how life emerged on Earth — and potentially beyond .

Earth-like plate tectonics may have shaped Venus billions of years ago A new study bolsters the theory that microbial life could have existed on our sister planet. Laura Baisas Oct 27, 2023 11:00 ...

The new study suggests plate tectonics started more than 4 billion years ago — not long after the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago. In this era, known as the Hadean, Earth was fresh and ...

Plate tectonic cross-roads: Reconstructing the Panthalassa-Neotethys Junction Region from Philippine Sea Plate and Australasian oceans and orogens. Gondwana Research, 2023; DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2023. ...

The plate tectonics that determine the shape of our continents may have originated from a huge impact billions of years ago. This huge collision with the Earth, thought to have occurred around 4.5 ...

Professor Gernon and his colleagues identified a pattern over the last 500 million years in which tectonic plates start to pull apart and, 22 to 33 million years later, kimberlite eruptions peak.

This area is one of the most active and visible places on Earth where two tectonic plates meet, so it's incredibly unique to be physically standing in the gap," Coleman told Newsweek.