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 ...

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

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

Whatever drives the movement, plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries, where new crust is formed; convergent boundaries, where crust is consumed ...

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 ...

It is also where most of the people on Earth live. In this lesson, students use scientific data to learn how the scientific process works. They learn where the Earth's tectonic plates and their ...

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, ...

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

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.