The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere. (This includes the crust and uppermost part of the mantle.) Churning currents in the molten rocks below propel them along like a ...

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

such as quantifying tectonic plate motions; and provides numerous open access resources for GNSS data and data products that are valuable for studies of the Earth's lithosphere. Stamps said it was ...

A tectonic plate, also known as a lithospheric plate, is an immense, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock, typically composed of both continental and oceanic lithosphere. The size of these plates ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. Late Cretaceous left-lateral strike ...