Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

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

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

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

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

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

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

or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's interior, can impact long-term climate stability, atmospheric ...