The Earth’s crust is made of pieces call the tectonic plates. These plates move and shift and change to the face of the planet. How do they move and how fast? Science Trek is available to stream on ...

The Earth with the upper mantle revealed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock in a key region just below the tectonic ...

Woods Hole, Mass. — Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they ...

The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move into the deepest reaches of the Earth is published in Nature today. Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one ...

Map of Earth's principal tectonic plates. Earth's lithosphere. Major and minor plates. arrows indicate direction of movement at plate boundaries. Vector illustration. Billions of years ago, Earth's ...

The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic underwater landscape shaped by tectonic activity and volcanic processes. Among ...

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into three ...

Each year, National Earthquake Information Center locates approximately 20,000 earthquakes around the world. That is about 55 earthquakes per day. By some estimates, there may be even more. According ...