The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

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

Where convection currents push plates together, destructive plate boundaries (margins) are formed. Constructive plate margins close constructive plate marginAn area where two tectonic plates are ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation ... Water-flux melting by mantle fluids played a key role in forming the sodic felsic crust that built ...

Interactions between plate boundaries and liquid water might also play a role, said Russell Pysklywec, a geophysicist at the ...

The mid-ocean ridges mark the lines along which the Earth is turning itself inside out through the process of plate tectonics. Advances in technology are helping to reveal the intricate details of ...

Between the plates are plate boundaries and this video introduces destructive, constructive and conservative plate boundaries and how the plates move at each of these, with earthquakes occurring ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown proto-microcontinent, the Davis Strait proto microcontinent, beneath the ...

Plate tectonics then fell into a continuous, self-sustaining pattern. "This discovery completely changes our understanding of Earth's earliest geological processes," says Professor Turner.