This study presents a new 1.8-billion-year full-plate tectonic model, integrating geological and paleomagnetic data to ...

Computers may now be better than ever at revealing how the giant plates of rock that we live on will drift, crash and dive against each other to shape Earth throughout its history, scientists say.

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

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

Tectonic plates do the same ... without relying on artificial friction laws. "The simple mechanical model we propose here, a ...

The new study suggests plate tectonics started more than 4 billion years ago — not long after the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago. In this era, known as the Hadean, Earth was fresh and ...

Due to the abundance of nitrogen and carbon dioxide present in Venus’ atmosphere, the team believes that Venus must have had plate tectonics about 4.5 billion to 3.5 billion years ago after the ...

W. Jason Morgan, who in 1967 developed the theory of plate tectonics — a framework that revolutionized the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and the slow, steady shift of the continents across the ...

W. Jason Morgan, scientist at forefront of plate tectonics theory, dies at 87. He received the National Medal of Science for his foundational work on plate tectonics and the presence of volcanic ...