"We don't know exactly what they are or what material is creating the patterns we have uncovered," researcher Thomas Schouten said.

The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust ... like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into ...

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 ...

told Live Science. In prehistoric animals, plate tectonic activity has been tied to faster rates of evolution, probably because geological movements split up habitats and create new niches for ...

The finding demonstrates that plate ... movements before 3 billion years ago," study co-author Timothy Kusky, director of the ...

This program explores the composition of our Earth, and delves deep into the tectonic plates, their history and the different ... Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, ...

Map of the Word with lines marking boundaries of tectonic plates ... mantle and crust—is split into sections called plates, which move. These movements create mountains, volcanoes and oceans.