Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...