Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

At first glance, landscapes like the Great Plains and the Rockies may seem unchanging, but over geological time scales, ...

“Almost all earthquakes happen here, too." The Ring of Fire is the result of plate tectonics − giant moving slabs of rock ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

The movement of tectonic plates determines the arrangement of the continents, and they’re constantly in motion. A new video combines a wealth of data and condenses it into a 40-second animation ...

Massive mantle formations, called LLSVPs, have been found to be over a billion years old. These structures, sitting 3,000 km beneath the surface, slow seismic waves, indicating unique physical and ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...