Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

These plates vary in size, from thousands of kilometers across to much smaller microplates. How Do Tectonic Plates Move Tectonic plates move because of convection currents in the mantle.

What if the solution to one of Mars’ most ancient secrets lay in plain sight spread out over a Texas-sized region of the planet’s floor? In Chryse Planitia, over 15,000 mysterious mounds stand in the ...

This study presents a new 1.8-billion-year full-plate tectonic model, integrating geological and paleomagnetic data to ...

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 ...

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Lori Dengler | The Galápagos Islands: A unique collision of tectonics, currents, and evolution A 3-D sketch of the Galápagos platform shows the location and relative heights of the western islands.

Their findings, recently published in Science Advances, suggest that early continental crust likely formed through deep Earth processes called mantle plumes, rather than the plate tectonics that ...

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently than previously assumed. This indicates the presence of zones of rocks that ...

The birth of a behemoth The planet’s tectonic plates are in constant motion, reshaping the surface as they pull apart and collide.

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...