New tectonic plate model shows how Earth was organized as a supercontinent 2.8 million years ago: Scientists hope it will help predict natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes.

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

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

A computer model visualization of material in the lower mantle. This material resembles a sunken plate but cannot come from subducted plates because of the lack of nearby subduction zones.

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 ...

What’s more, the study is giving scientists a peek into the final moments of a tectonic plate’s life. The Juan de Fuca is one of the few remaining fragments of the once mighty Farallon plate ...

The second model was plate tectonics. On Earth, about 80 percent of volcanism occurs along mid-oceanic ridges where two tectonic plates are spreading apart and magma upwells.

The proposed plate tectonic model in GPlates overlain with the present-day crustal thickness data. But now, the researchers are positing that Iceland and the Greenland Iceland Faroes Ridge (GIFR ...

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 ...

By using this plate tectonic model of where Earth's continents and ocean basins would have been some 700 million years ago, and pairing that model with another one that focused on carbon dioxide ...

Scientists have identified a long-lost tectonic plate in the west Pacific Ocean. Called Pontus, the 'mega-plate' was once 15 million square miles, about a quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean today.