Make sure you pencil this into your long-term calendar, estimates place the death of plate tectonics here on Earth at 1.45 billion years from now.

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

Geology: Slow episodic slip probably occurs in the plate boundary Date: July 6, 2015 Source: The University of Tokyo Summary: Scientists have discovered slow-moving low-frequency tremors which ...

Some scientists think plate tectonics were essential to the rise of life on Earth. ... To find out what his latest project is, you can follow Michael on Twitter. Read more.

But not all earthquakes occur along plate boundaries. For example, an earthquake near New Madrid, Missouri in the winter of 1811 was thousands of miles from the nearest fault, yet the magnitude 7. ...

Plate tectonics may have driven 'Cambrian Explosion' Date: June 19, 2019 Source: University of Exeter Summary: The quest to discover what drove one of the most important evolutionary events in the ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Oceanic transform faults have historically been thought of as simple, predictable features. They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent ...

Things grow more complicated when you look at plate boundaries, where plate tectonics causes plates to splinter into smaller fragments called microplates.These have an area of less than 386,000 ...

The plate tectonics that determine the shape of our continents may have originated from a huge impact billions of years ago. This huge collision with the Earth, thought to have occurred around 4.5 ...

To create the map, the team combined three geological models: a plate model based on already known plate boundaries, a province model based on the geology of of Earth's surface, and an orogeny ...