New tectonic plate model shows how Earth was organized as a supercontinent 2.8 million years ago: Scientists hope it will help predict natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes.

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

This study presents a new 1.8-billion-year full-plate tectonic model, integrating geological and paleomagnetic data to ...

“Our new model for tectonic plates better explains the spatial distribution of 90 per cent of earthquakes and 80 per cent of volcanoes from the past two million years, whereas existing models ...

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

A computer model visualization of material in the lower mantle. This material resembles a sunken plate but cannot come from subducted plates because of the lack of nearby subduction zones.

A tectonic plate "lost" for 60 million years hiding under the Pacific Ocean has been reconstructed by ... when you are trying to model the earth and understand how climate has changed since ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

About 150 million years ago, a massive tectonic mega-plate stretched across the Earth, spanning roughly a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean. Its jagged contours ran all the way through the ...

A computer-generated three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus. Venus has a surface temperature of over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.