Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

The Pangean-era structure "It's being torn apart in real time" keeps the planet on edge. The ocean plate is now being torn ...

Determining Earth's structure is paramount to unravel its interior dynamics ... comprising the upper portion of the mantle and the crust – is formed of around 15 tectonic plates. Seismic activity can ...

Researchers have continued to study what lies beneath the Earth's crust for a long time. They have made some fascinating discoveries after examining the lower portion of the planet's mantle under ...

Geology. The presence of oceans, continents and plate tectonics on Earth is most likely the reason there is no evidence for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, according to new research by ...

According to current theories about plate tectonics, there should not be subducted ... To uncover these hidden structures, the scientists employed full waveform inversion, a method that uses ...

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts beneath the Eurasian plate, reshaping our understanding of the forces ...

The diagram below shows the structure of the earth ... Constructive plate margins close constructive plate marginAn area where two tectonic plates are moving away from one another.

And hidden structures or pockets of unblended material ... contribute to a better understanding of mantle convection and plate tectonics, and, therefore, phenomena we experience at the surface ...