Major ancient faults like that can remain as weak zones in the Earth’s crust and then focus ongoing tectonic strain,” noted ...

Around 800 million years ago, during the Tonian period, the Yangtze Block in South China experienced significant tectonic ...

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active ...

What a time to be alive. Change, disruption, upheaval everywhere you look. Tectonic plates crashing about and smashing up the ...

A new method integrates Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) with conventional ground geodetic networks, taking us closer to high-resolution mapping of plate motions.

Intraplate tectonic settings, located far from active plate margins, have historically been considered stable. However, infrequent but destructive ...

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

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate has been brought back into view. In one of Earth's most tectonically ...

You Can Watch 1.8 Billion Years Of Earth's Tectonic Plates Shifting In This 1-Minute Video Hundreds of thousands of years ago, Earth was like another world.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...

Mantle plumes are mysterious upwellings of molten rock believed to transmit heat from the core-mantle boundary to the Earth’s surface, far from the edges of tectonic plates.