This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Southern California is seismically active due to its location on tectonic plate boundaries, having experienced major quakes like the 1994 Northridge event. A strong but shallow earthquake with a ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

A new study has changed what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s early history. Researchers have discovered that the ...

Although the Caribbean is well-known for its sunshine and beaches, it now has a new claim to fame in the world of plate tectonics." "It's wild to think that in some ways tectonic plates have a ...