The movement of these tectonic plates leads to earthquakes and volcanoes ... the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very, very, very ...

Plate tectonics also exposes rocks that react ... Earth's history is a leap forward in the scientific grand challenge to map ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

Maps help ships navigate around safety hazards ... and the movements of Earth’s tectonic plates, those massive puzzle pieces of Earth’s crust that shift over millions of years.

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.