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 animations show the movements of tectonic plates, the large rafts of crust ... "What we bring with this new model," Salles wrote in an email to Live Science, "is a way to evaluate how this ...

A security camera near Thazi, Myanmar, captured the earth cracking during a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in March.

It's really kind of unsettling,' Professor Vidale told Live Science ... The Earth is moving under our feet: Tectonic plates move through the mantle and produce Earthquakes as they scrape ...

Earth’s crust is divided into huge, rigid tectonic plates that move across its surface. Their slow motion powers earthquakes, fuels volcanoes, and drives the endless reshaping of continents.

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 Center for Global Tectonics at the China University of Geosciences ...

Scientists have unearthed Greater Adria, a lost continent the size of Greenland, hidden beneath Southern Europe for 140 ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic ... movement. You often find geological features like rift valleys, volcanos and geysers in areas where plates ...