Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

But as our climate changes and plate movement picks up, could we be in danger of the reverse occurring, with the ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

Iron ore deposits are about 1.3 billion years younger than previously believed, reshaping both scientific thinking and mining ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

The Junction of Two Tectonic RealmsEarth’s crust is divided into huge, rigid tectonic plates that Ancient tectonic 'mega plate' rediscovered after 20 million years Skip to main content ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

200 million years ago, the planet looked very different than it did now. Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my ...

Regardless of the exact shape, the inevitability of continental collision stems from the slow but steady movement of tectonic plates. “Collisions between continents fundamentally reshape plate ...