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 ...

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

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. Water-flux melting by mantle fluids ...

Research results showed Earth’s earliest crust – known as the protocrust – that formed during the Hadean eon, would have a ...

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

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

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

"Why is Earth the only rocky planet to have plate tectonics?" said Qian Yuan, lead author of that paper and a postdoctoral fellow in geodynamics at the California Institute of Technology.

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

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...