The plates either move apart, rub against each other, or shove themselves under one another. As a result, the continents ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

According to National Geographic: "The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart ...

When plumes of magma well up through Earth's lithosphere, they create volcanoes, islands, seamounts, and other features on ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

Right below our feet is the meeting place of multiple tectonic plates, slowly moving and pushing against each other. The edges of these masses move and break, causing the ground to shake or ...

Right below our feet is the meeting place of multiple tectonic plates, slowly moving and pushing against each other. The edges of these masses move and break, causing the ground to shake or ...