Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Plate tectonics is relatively new, put forth in the last 30 years or so — its forerunner was the now-discarded continental drift theory. The theory states that Earth's outer shell is made up of ...

Additional evidence surfaced in Palawan, an island in the western Philippines, and the South China Sea. These discoveries ...

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

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests ... less dense sections of plate are pulled along ...

Tom Heap considers the evidence that the UK climate might be changing - with more droughts, higher summer temperatures, but wetter winters. Plate tectonics in the UK - Anglesey. videoPlate ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes ... The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another ...