A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake has struck the far-eastern coast of Russia, triggering tsunami waves up to five metres. The quake, which struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, sparked alerts ...

红河-哀牢山断裂带在青藏高原内众多走滑断裂中最引人注目的，一是其走滑运动发生过转换，从左行变换成右行，二是一条上千公里的糜棱岩带出露 ...

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

The theory of Plate tectonics – developed from Alfred Wegener’s theory of Continental Drift to explain the movement of the continents – has become the prevailing theory underpinning our ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

The theory of Plate tectonics – developed from Alfred Wegener’s theory of Continental Drift to explain the movement of the continents – has become the prevailing theory underpinning our ...

New Study on Zircons Finds Plate Tectonics Began 3.6 Billion Years Ago The research reveals how one of Earth’s defining geologic features likely formed — and set the stage for the emergence of ...

Plate tectonics can move continents, build mountain ranges, and trigger earthquakes and volcanoes when pent up energy is suddenly released. But while tectonics can destroy life indiscriminately at a ...

Plate tectonics is just a phase in a planet’s lifetime between conditions that are too hot or too cold for the planet-churning mechanism, new simulations suggest.

The research provides chemical evidence that plate tectonics was most likely occurring more than 4.2 billion years ago when life is thought to have first formed on our planet.

Significantly, that chronology decouples plate tectonics from the origin of life on Earth: evidence of the earliest single-celled organisms dates back more than 3.6 billion years.