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

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

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

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

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 ...

They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent ... considered to host magmatic or hydrothermal activity. "We have this amazing image of this ...

"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 ...

Plate tectonics, with its study of the earth ... The object was to detect seismic activity along the crest of the ridge and test the prediction made in the 1950s by another French scientist ...

Although the Caribbean is well-known for its sunshine and beaches, it now has a new claim to fame in the world of plate tectonics." "It's wild to think that in some ways tectonic plates have a ...

This is probably the deepest recorded example of human activity changing the solid ... important for people who try to understand plate tectonics.” Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your ...