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

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 ...

Plate tectonics, the theory that underpins ... high-resolution magnetic data to connect buried features with surface geology. They built on previous studies that dated the movement to around ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic tectonic collision that created the Himalayas.

Structural geology and tectonics projects commonly include fieldwork components ... and have dived and drilled in thousands of meters of water to observe and take samples from active plate margins. In ...

Research in structural geology and tectonics seeks to define how and why deformation occurs within the earth at scales from mineral fabrics to lithospheric plates, and at time frames ranging from ...

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis Strait proto-microcontinent.

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

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

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...