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 ...

The reporter blames the laws of nature, plate tectonics to be precise. The Earth's crust is like a puzzle, constructed out of ...

The mediterranean sea straddles two tectonic plates and is lined by large towns and cities. We need to take the tsunami ...

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 ...

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

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

A new study reconstructs how an ancient North American rift system was uplifted in space and time due to subsequent continent-continent collision.

The same forces that have made this one of the world's most epic roads could be what causes its obliteration, says UC Santa ...

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