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

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

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

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

During its recent exploration of the crater rim, Perseverance diverted to explore a strange, scattered field of bright white ...

Commenting on the geological development, Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist and a professor based at the University of ...

This advanced undergraduate textbook provides a thoroughly modern overview of plate tectonics and is the perfect resource for a capstone geology course. It presents plate tectonics as a multifaceted, ...

India and China are neighbors that for centuries have disagreed over certain stretches of their shared borders. Indian commentators now suggest the countries' shared tectonic plates are moving ...

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 ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...