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 ...

Scientists have discovered the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate, which once stretched across 15 million square miles. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

The Indian plate began to move northward, moving as much as 9 cm/year and eventually ramming into the Eurasian plate millions of years ago. The collision between the two plates is what led to the ...

Discover the secrets of the dinosaur-era superstructure in the Pacific Ocean that is still forming. Learn about the Melanesian Border Plateau, its volcanic rocks enriched in rare elements, and its ...

In 1970, Russian geologists drilled a nine-inch wide hole into the Kola Peninsula’s Baltic Shield — a part of Earth’s crust with rock well over a billion years old — and began digging as deep as they ...

Called Pontus, the 'mega-plate' was once 15 million square miles, about a quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean, report experts at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

In 2021, geologists animated a video that shows how Earth's tectonic plates moved over the last billion years. The plates move together and apart at the speed of fingernail growth, and the video ...

William Jason Morgan, a leading scholar of plate tectonics and mantle movements, died on July 31 in his sleep, at the home he shared with his daughter and her family. He was 87. Morgan, Princeton ...

W. Jason Morgan, who in 1967 developed the theory of plate tectonics died on July 31 at his home in Natick, Massachusetts.

These plate movements are driven by convection in our mantle, ... Trenches along the Pacific plate appear along the Aleutian Islands, Japan and Tonga, where data show weaker gravitational forces.

The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic ...