New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

They can move apart (divergence), come together (convergence), or slide past each other (transformation). These interactions create subduction zones, where one plate plunges beneath another, and ...