Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

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 ...

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

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

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

The groundbreaking discovery was detailed in a study published last year in the journal Gondwana Research by researchers from the University of Derby in England and Sweden's Uppsala University. Read ...

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

A recent study challenges the long-held belief of the Indian plate smoothly sliding under the Eurasian plate. Seismic data reveals the Indian plate is ...