Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

Africa is currently experiencing geological processes that could lead to the separation of the Somali Peninsula from the rest ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic tectonic collision that created the Himalayas.

Structural geology and tectonics projects commonly include fieldwork components ... and have dived and drilled in thousands of meters of water to observe and take samples from active plate margins. In ...

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

India’s tectonic plate may be splitting into layers beneath Tibet, revealing mantle helium leaks and reshaping theories of mountain formation and plate tectonics.

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...