Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

A deep, rhythmic pulse has been found surging like a heartbeat deep under Africa. At the Afar triple junction under Ethiopia, ...

Atoms slip against one another, eventually sticking in various combinations. Tectonic plates do the same, sliding across each other until they stick ...

An oceanic plate dives beneath another in an illustration of a subduction zone. Studies of tectonic activity off the coast of Portugal may reveal a new subduction zone being born.

Over time, the tectonic plates pushed the Eurasian landmass upwards, resulting in creating the planet's highest elevations. However, this new study hints that the process is not as simple as it ...

The model displayed remnants of submerged plates located under oceans and in the middle of continents, which—according to our current understanding of the plate tectonic cycle—are all too far ...

Hawley, however, was distracted by a peculiar region below central Oregon where it appears that a chunk of the Juan de Fuca plate is missing. He wasn’t the first to notice this gap, but it ...

Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge for granted, this theory of plate tectonics was only formulated in the ...

Mapping the past plate tectonics of the planet is the first stage in being able to build a complete digital model of Earth through its history. Such a model will allow us to test hypotheses about ...

Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to set off plate tectonics. By Lucas Joel Some 4.5 billion years ...