Geoscientists from the University of Toronto have made a breakthrough discovery that adds new dimensions to the theory of plate tectonics. Their research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, ...

Scientists have discovered a Jurassic tectonic plate boundary that could help to predict what the planet might look like ...

Researchers discovered new undersea faults on the Pacific plate, some of which are thousands of meters below the surface of the ocean and hundreds of kilometers long. Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project A ...

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Take yourself back to fifth-grade science for a second. You might have learned that earthquakes are caused by the sudden movement of big, underground sheets of rock, called tectonic plates. Your ...

Along submarine mountain ranges, the mid-ocean ridges, forces from the Earth's interior push tectonic plates apart, forming new ocean floor and thus moving continents about. However, many features of ...

Scientists have discovered a huge tectonic boundary under Africa, running from Mozambique to Tanzania.

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to learn about tectonic plates and fault lines. A subduction fault is when two plates have different densities.

Off the coast of Vancouver Island, scientists have captured unusually sharp images of a tectonic plate that is breaking apart as it sinks beneath North America. They describe a slab drop of about five ...

Model of the crustal thickness of Mercury. Credit: Smithsonian Institution. The new models of crustal thickness were created using gravity and topographic data obtained by NASA’s Mercury Surface, ...