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 ...

Politics is the art of the possible. And more often than not, the gradual erosion of the political soil by the dirt and ...

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

This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address, as a pair of researchers investigated how plate tectonics, oceans, and continents are responsible for the emergence and ...

But when did Earth's surface splinter into tectonic plates? And when did those plates start moving? It's an important question because plate tectonics seems to fuel the evolution and complexity of ...

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

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, ...

It must be evident by now in the densest of crania in the most conservative of political think tanks circumscribing the cocktail circuit that ‘something happened’. ..