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 ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

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 ...

Utrecht University geologist Suzanna van de Lagemaat has reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. Her colleagues in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Levant fault is a major tectonic structure in the Mediterranean region. Also known as the Dead Sea fault, it forms the western boundary of the Arabian plate. This sinistral transform fault extends ...

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 ...