For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

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

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

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

Through a comprehensive synthesis for the basic principles of plate tectonics and their geological corollaries, a holistic model is proposed for structures, processes and products of plate ...

A tectonic plate is a massive slab of Earth’s outer shell, known as the lithosphere. These plates float on the asthenosphere, a softer, more flexible upper mantle layer. Earth’s lithosphere is ...

Earthquakes and volcanism occur as a result of plate tectonics. The movement of tectonic plates themselves is largely driven by the process known as subduction. The question of how new active ...

move plates apart, constructive plate boundaries (margins) are formed. Where convection currents push plates together, destructive plate boundaries (margins) are formed. Plate tectonics cause ...

A new study has provided a major update on why Africa is being split into two. The rift has been happening gradually for around two decades when a 35-mile-long fissure was spotted in Ethiopia's desert ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet some of these giant structures vanished deep into the mantle, hidden ...