Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge for granted, this theory of plate tectonics was only formulated in the ...

Researchers in China and Australia have created an animation that details Earth's tectonic movements over the past 1.8 billion years. In just over a minute, the video offers a mesmerizing look at ...

But charting the precise movements of those plates over all that time is challenging. Existing models often span only a few million years or focus on just continental or oceanic changes, not both.

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

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 ...

Watch This Billion-Year Journey of Earth’s Tectonic Plates A new simulation offers a different view of how the continents we live on drifted into their current configuration. Share full article 157 ...

Every place on Earth is moving. That includes neighboring marks on the same tectonic plate. What this means is that after the Eulerian motions are removed, the remaining motions left over change the ...

Convergent plate margins occur when two adjoining tectonic plates come together to form either a subduction zone, where at least one of the converging plates is oceanic and plunges beneath the ...

Countries with the most earthquakes are often located near the boundaries of tectonic plates, where seismic activity is most ...

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In the new model, a tectonic plate bends due to a repeating, two-step process. The top 20 kilometers of the tectonic plate breaks slightly, creating faulting. Grain damage then weakens the lower 80 ...