Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into several plates that glide ... Geology Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic ...

Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists from Utrecht University, the UK, and the US has resulted in ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Movement in the Earth's tectonic plates indirectly triggers bursts of biodiversity in 36 million-year cycles by forcing sea levels to rise and fall, new research has shown.

Despite its importance, plate tectonics has remained somewhat of a mystery. Since the early twenty-first century, geologists have been gathering data in search of answers as to when and how plate ...

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 fossil] provides us with ...

Image of the tectonic plates making up the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic may start to close in around 20 million years. Elliot Lim, CIRES & NOAA/NCEI ...

People Are Confused Why There Are Marine Fossils At The Top Of Mount Everest No, it is not evidence of a great flood. James Felton. ... In fact, it is evidence for plate tectonics.