A new study suggests that the surface of Venus is more active than scientists previously thought, and the findings could shed light on how the early Earth evolved ...

Earth's surface is broken up into large plates that rub against each other, causing earthquakes, volcanoes and large mountain ranges. But how unique is our planet's geology?

Geologists recently unveiled groundbreaking seismic evidence of massive, ancient “fortresses” located nearly 1,800 miles below the Earth’s surface, in the mantle. These colossal structures are not ...

Consult this tutorial by Thermo Fisher Scientific to select the microplate with the right surface characteristics.

Although the ocean covers roughly 71% of Earth’s surface, more than 80% of that ocean has yet to be mapped, explored, or even seen by humans. So, it isn’t surprising that some stray land formations go ...

Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of why plate tectonics works the way it does for over a hundred years. And they might have just uncovered a key to cracking it. Eons is available ...

HAMAR LASER INSTRUMENTS INC. released its L-703SP Surface Plate Calibration System, a compact geometry laser-based calibration system that is highly repeatable, offers extremely high resolution and ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

This article was originally published with the title “Surface-Plates, or Planometers, and Scraped Surfaces” in SA Supplements Vol. 1 No. 15supp (April 1876), p. 225 doi:10.1038 ...

Another way Venus differs from Earth is that Earth has long experienced a phenomenon called plate tectonics, in which surface plates constantly shift over the underlying mantle layer.