Our work allows us to update maps of tectonic plates and the formation of continents that are found in classroom textbooks. These plate models which have been assembled from topographic models and ...

According to plate tectonics theory, Earth's outer shell is divided into multiple plates that slowly glide over the mantle. This slowly changes Earth's surface over time by merging, or separating ...

The map is the first to show the whereabouts of almost 100 massive remnants of what were once tectonic plates, ... as well as how plate tectonics could raise sea level by raising the sea floor.

Called Pontus, the 'mega-plate' was once 15 million square miles, about a quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean, report experts at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.