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

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

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 ...

Such plate tectonics have left unique chemical signatures in the crust over millennia. In fact, scientists have understood the history of plate tectonics by studying these signatures. A new study ...

Because of this, plate tectonics is also thought to be intimately connected to the development of life on Earth. The movement of tectonic plates produces volcanic activity at their boundaries.

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new discovery that ...