According to the team, the ongoing separation is progressing from the northeast to the south in a motion scientists liken to ...

In 1963, Fred Vine, Drummond Matthews, and others found that the crust surrounding the midocean ridges showed alternating bands -- each band magnetized with a polarity opposite the surrounding bands.

Observations indicate that plate tectonics began before any currently known structural geological record on Earth Identification of the oldest preserved pieces of Earth’s crust in southern Greenland ...

As Africa undergoes a dramatic geological shift that may one day split the continent in two, here’s everything you need to ...