Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

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

Map of the Pangea-Tethys and Panthalassa plate tectonic realms separated by the Juction Region. Present-day plate boundaries are red (modified from Bird, 2003), relevant former plate boundaries ...

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Researchers used small zircon crystals to unlock information about magmas and plate tectonic activity in early Earth. The research provides chemical evidence that plate tectonics was most likely ...

Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from ... This story was corrected at 2:40 p.m. EST to correct one mention of an age estimate for the emergence of plate tectonics.

The movement of tectonic plates may have been kick-started by a huge object slamming into Earth around 4.5 billion years ago. ... Do you have a question about plate tectonics?

Tectonic plate activity could even be occurring on other planets. But scientists are divided on when active plate tectonics started . Some say it was about 3 billion years ago; others say it was 1 ...

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 ...

Venus, may have once had tectonic plate movements similar to those believed to have occurred on early Earth, a new study found. The finding sets up tantalizing scenarios regarding the possibility ...