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

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

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Mud volcanoes—relatively unheard of in North America, but prominent in volcanic regions around ... the boundary of West Asia ...

Thousands of mysterious mounds on Mars preserve layers of evidence pointing to ancient water on the red planet that likely sculpted the towering formations.

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

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Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent plate boundaries ... plate movement of around 5 centimeters per year ...

The finding also presents scientists with a new puzzle: the pieces are far away from plate boundaries — nowhere near where ... gathered from seismographic stations around the world, and create a new ...

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...