For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

The Pacific Plate is cracking from within, overturning tectonic theories. Hidden undersea faults show Earth’s strongest plate ...

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

Africa is slowly drifting apart along the East African Rift System, and researchers suspect this tectonic movement would ...

Analyzing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in Earth's crust in Turkey has brought new ...

Sink or Swim: The fate of sinking tectonic plates depends on their ancient tectonic histories New findings provide a greater understanding of how tectonic plates move Date: April 9, 2025 Source ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...

For decades, scientists debated whether the Indian Plate was simply underplating — slipping beneath Tibet’s crust — or ...