Build mountains. Trigger volcanoes. Create new sea floor. You now have the power to change the landscape with the slightest push of your mouse. Four types of plate tectonic activity are demonstrated ...

Plate tectonics is not just about earthquakes and volcanoes. It is deeply connected to the conditions that made life possible ...

We often affiliate plate tectonics with earthquakes, as we are all taught in school that the shifting of plates leads to big shakes. But plate tectonics serve a far more important job to the planet ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago.

A new study of rocks that formed billions of years ago lends fresh insight into how Earth's plate tectonics—the movement of large pieces of Earth's outer shell—evolved over the planet's ...

New information about conditions that can cause Earth's tectonic plates to sink into the earth has been released in a new report. In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Plate tectonics is the widely accepted theory that the Earth's crust is divided into several sections that float around on the mantle — the mostly ...

Plate tectonics is the theory used to explain the structure of the Earth’s crust and many of the associated phenomenon. The rigid lithosphere is split into 15 major plates that slowly move on top of ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to learn about tectonic plates and fault lines. A subduction fault is when two plates have different densities.