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

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

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, ...