This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Continental and oceanic plates all fit together ... destructive plate boundaries (margins) are formed. Constructive plate margins close constructive plate marginAn area where two tectonic plates ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic tectonic collision that created the Himalayas.

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the ... The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...