This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

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

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

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.” ...

The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...

This part of the planet plays a crucial role in shaping surface features like mountains and volcanoes, and it drives plate tectonics through slow-moving convection currents. Scientists have long ...

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology ... the Lesser Antilles subduction zone act as a strong asperity on the plate interface and release fluids that drive hydrofracturing and ...

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

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

A rare geological process is tearing the Indian Plate apart deep beneath the surface, scientists have discovered. In a study ...