Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

At a destructive boundary the plates are moving towards each other. This usually involves a continental plate and an oceanic plate. The oceanic plate is denser than the continental plate.

A team of geophysicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland has made a baffling discovery while analyzing earthquake waves to calculate the internal structures of the Earth. They found areas in our planet's ...

Around 200 million years ago, Earth's last supercontinent Pangea began to break apart, with plate tectonics slowly moving the continents into the world we recognize today. Plate tectonics was only ...

The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

Lijun Liu, of the University of Illinois, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on May 10, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, and a light ...

Plate tectonics was only discovered relatively recently. Though German meteorologist Alfred Wegner first proposed continental drift in 1912 – and hypothesized that the continents were once ...

The latest research contradicts previous studies that proposed the Indian landmass's collision with Eurasian plates as the ...

The scientific theory of plate tectonics became widely accepted during ... about 4.6 billion years. Continental crust is generally higher in silica, which makes it less dense.

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean ...

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts ...