Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have accepted a particular theory regarding the evolution Earth’s plate tectonics, but a recent study published in Nature Geoscience could defy this as a team of researchers ...

Plate tectonics is a theory of geology developed to explain the phenomenon of continental drift and is currently the theory accepted by the vast majority of scientists working in this area. In the ...

Learn how the layers of the Earth are structured, and the theory of plate tectonics in this guide for KS3 geography students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

This process, called plate tectonics, is responsible for earthquakes, volcanoes, ocean ridges and vast mountain ranges on Earth's surface. We know that other rocky bodies, such as Venus , are ...

Plate tectonic theory is among the most brilliant insights in all of intellectual history because it so elegantly explains so much that for so long had eluded us.

But plate tectonics isn't actually required to produce these signatures, according to the new study published April 2 in the journal Nature. These findings are important for the debate over when ...

But many geologists think Stern's view is too conservative. Critics agree that rocks indicative of plate tectonics became widespread for the first time 700 million to 900 million years ago.

Learn how the layers of the Earth are structured, and the theory of plate tectonics in this guide for KS3 geography students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

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 ...