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

Between the plates are plate boundaries and this video introduces destructive, constructive and conservative plate boundaries and how the plates move at each of these, with earthquakes occurring ...

This is called a destructive or convergent plate boundary. When the plates collide, the denser plate, usually the oceanic one, is forced underneath the continental plate. The force of this ...

On an otherwise unassuming day, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the southwestern coast of New Zealand's South Island, underscoring the complex seismic activity that characterizes this region.

Originating from the collision of the Indian and the Eurasian Plates some 40 million years ago, the plate boundary in Southeast Asia is an active tectonic feature that generated one of the largest ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

On Earth, convection deep in the mantle provides the energy that drives plate tectonics. Earth’s crust, about 40 kilometers thick in continents and 6 km in ocean basins, is too thin and cool to ...

Accurate seafloor maps are also important for an improved understanding of deep-sea currents and tides, which affect life in the abyss, as well as geologic processes like plate tectonics.

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs about how our continents formed and when plate tectonics began.

Accurate seafloor maps are also important for an improved understanding of deep-sea currents and tides, which affect life in the abyss, as well as geologic processes like plate tectonics ... hills are ...