"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

GPlates Web Service(GWS) is a web API for the plate tectonics reconstruction.

A hilly area surrounding the Zagros Mountains in Iraq is being pulled into the Earth. Understanding why could help predict future earthquakes.

Searcher Seismic’s geoscience head Neil Hodgson discusses blue-sky thinking, plate tectonics and contourites, ahead of key ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, Harvard researchers think they have a good explanation for ...

Controversial Dutch researcher and seismologist Frank Hoogerbeets said on Monday that Greece is in volcanic and earthquake ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be. These massive slabs, part of the lithosphere, meet at their edges where all the ...