From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

Massive crustal plates shift, creating mountains, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. This process, known as plate tectonics, ...

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

Modern-style plate tectonics, marked by continental crust subduction and deep slab break-off, began in the late Neoproterozoic (approximately 600–700 million years ago). Under the modern ...

The reporter blames the laws of nature, plate tectonics to be precise. The Earth's crust is like a puzzle, constructed out of many pieces: There are a few gigantic oceanic plates and many smaller ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

Recent research has identified that significant changes in the Earth's mantle composition began about 300 million years ago, ...