The Africa–Eurasia plate boundary presents one of the world’s most varied and dynamic tectonic settings—encompassing subduction zones, strike-slip faults ...

In a development that could reshape our understanding of tectonic movement, scientists have found massive fractures forming inside the Pacific Plate– the biggest tectonic plate on Earth. The study, ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

Here, subduction happened radially outward, as oceanic plates plunged beneath continental edges ... most significant recent discoveries in plate tectonics is the confirmation of the Pontus ...

Ice Melting and Plate Tectonics The geoscientists based their simulation ... long time — that processes like seafloor spreading and continental drift operate at timescales of millions of years driven ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Last week, there were reports that a series of small earthquakes were recorded in California that generated a few news headlines. The state is notorious for earthquake activity. It’s estimated that ...

The other archaic concept came from human geography and can be summed up by the expression ‘nimble fingers’. This was the ...

A massive crack is forming beneath one of the world's continents, and scientists believe it could one day split the continent ...

The national park’s features confirm plate tectonic theory, making it one of the best places to see the planet’s geological ...