Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

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

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

India’s tectonic plate may be splitting into layers beneath Tibet, revealing mantle helium leaks and reshaping theories of ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Compositional anomalies in oceanic plates, resulting from ancient tectonic activities, affect their descent into Earth's mantle. These anomalies, particularly ...