Several structures, a.k.a. tectonic plates, seemed to be sitting there, untouched since the evolution of Earth billions of ...
Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...
It’s especially puzzling since Venus is a terrestrial world much like Earth, so much so that it’s considered to be our planet ...
An international team of scientists has discovered the first oceanic microplate in the Indian Ocean–helping identify when the initial collision between India and Eurasia occurred, leading to the birth ...
Utrecht University PhD candidate Suzanna van de Lagemaat has reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. She reconstructed ...
Earth’s outer shell suffered a catastrophic break on 6 February last year, when a major fault came to life in southern Turkey. The Anatolian peninsula suddenly lurched to the southwest by as much as ...
Scientists believe the way the Earth's tectonic plates began shifting and crashing into each other billions of years ago played a huge role in how our planet evolved and life developed. Similar ...
Researchers examined some of the oldest rocks in western Greenland. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Scientists believe the way the Earth's tectonic plates began shifting and ...
About 60 million years ago, India plowed into Eurasia and pushed up the Himalayas. But when Lucía Pérez-Díaz reconstructed the event in detail, she found that its central mystery depended on a broken ...