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 ...

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 ...

Scuba diving at Iceland’s Silfra Fissure offers adventurers a chance to explore a submerged canyon between the Eurasian and ...

Right below our feet is the meeting place of multiple tectonic plates, slowly moving and pushing against each other. The edges of these masses move and break, causing the ground to shake or ...

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

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

A team of scientists has discovered that iron monoxide plays a critical role in conducting heat from the Earth's core to the surface, influencing tectonic movements and volcanic activity. This mineral ...

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

Right below our feet is the meeting place of multiple tectonic plates, slowly moving and pushing against each other. The edges of these masses move and break, causing the ground to shake or ...

Right below our feet is the meeting place of multiple tectonic plates, slowly moving and pushing against each other. The edges of these masses move and break, causing the ground to shake or ...