Ancient tectonic plates continue to reshape the Earth's interior and reveal a deep connection to its global dynamics ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

Plate tectonics are the quiet force behind Earth's long story, moving continents and shaping mountains. This video shows how ...

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Hell, or something like it, may be a little closer than we thought. As a new study published in Nature Geoscience reveals, geologists at Cornell and the University of Texas have discovered a “hidden” ...

Tectonic map of the Earth. The first continental crust on Earth formed more than 3 billion years ago. Likely the first fragments formed by partial melting and re-crystallization of the primordial ...

A new study suggests that plate tectonics -- a scientific theory that divides the earth into large chunks of crust that move slowly over hot viscous mantle rock -- could have been active from the ...