Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

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 ...

Plate Tectonics emerged in the late1960s when geologists realized that plates moving on Earth’s surface at fingernail-growth speeds side-swipe each other at some places (like California) and ...

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

Learn about innovative timber projects in China, where adaptability and eco-friendliness challenge concrete's dominance in ...

Whereas Earth has plate tectonics, some other bodies — such as Mars, Mercury and Earth's moon — have what is called a stagnant lid.

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

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.

A geophysicist and marine geologist, Atwater is dubbed “The Mother of Plate Tectonics” for her extensive research in the field. She is best known for her work on the plate tectonic history of western ...

P late tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...