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

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

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

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 ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

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 ...

These plate remains were found lurking underneath the center of other continental plates, far from tectonic boundaries, according to a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports.

A Surviving Remnant Of Dinosaur-Era Tectonic Plate Rewrites Mantle Behavior Deep within the Earth is a layer that can apparently impede the process of crust recycling as it has been imagined.

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 ...