Nicholas van der Elst, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, considers plate tectonics to be the “unifying theory of geology.” ...

Plate tectonics appears to play a key role in how species on Earth evolve, the same way that events like changes in climate or asteroid impacts do. The new fossil of Ngamugawi wirngarri that ...

By studying the fossil record, the scientists have shown ... "The cycles are 36 million years long because of regular patterns in how tectonic plates are recycled into the convecting mantle ...

In fact, according to NASA, the presence of limestone and ocean marine fossils on the mountain was a key piece of evidence that advanced the idea of plate tectonics, after the theory was proposed ...