Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

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.” ...

A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent ...

Extraordinary fossil discoveries reveal an important link between plate tectonics and extreme evolutionary changes just like that of a well-preserved 'Devonian coelacanth' fish that was just ...

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 ...

If real, that version of plate tectonics looks nothing like Earth's. But it shows the diversity of planetary geology that could lurk elsewhere in the cosmos. "In the end, understanding what causes ...

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 ...

An earthquake such as this occurs because Earth’s crust is divided into shifting tectonic plates. The forces behind plate tectonics play a part in determining nearly everything about Earth ...

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Fossils provide important insights about the existence and adaption of living organisms — over millions of years. Ancient plant fossils provide clues about climate conditions and environmental change.