Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries ... boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass.

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations ...

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

A rare geological process is tearing the Indian Plate apart deep beneath the surface, scientists have discovered. In a study ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...