Geoscientists from the University of Toronto have made a breakthrough discovery that adds new dimensions to the theory of ...

Research and monitoring activities in the Tibetan region have become more ... The discovery transforms our concepts about plate tectonics and demonstrates the Earth’s ongoing transformations.

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

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Tectonic plate movement under a section of Northern Africa could pull the area that is currently Ethiopia, Djibouti and ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

The Pacific Plate is cracking from within, overturning tectonic theories. Hidden undersea faults show Earth’s strongest plate ...

"Most of these will occur at or near to plate boundaries, which is precisely where we have seen this activity in the last few weeks, in New Zealand, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Myanmar," Dr Ninis ...

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...