Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

A magnitude 3 earthquake was recorded at 7:10 a.m. on Monday some 24 kilometers northwest of Calatagan, Batangas. The 89-kilometer deep earthquake was of tectonic origin, the ...

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.

These plate remains were found lurking underneath the center of other continental plates, far from tectonic boundaries, according to a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports. One of these ...

Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

The finding also presents scientists with a new puzzle: the pieces are far away from plate boundaries — nowhere near where ... which occurs when an oceanic plate slides beneath a continental plate. By ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

It extended before and beyond the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, a transition between ... Around this time, the Indian Plate, once part of the Gondwana supercontinent along with South ...

Aside from determining the planet's geography, this perpetual continental dance also distributes essential elements like phosphorus, which supports DNA structure. “Plate tectonics also exposes ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck near York Harbor, Maine, early Monday, sending tremors as far south as Boston and as far ...