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

Eight major plates are named on the diagram below ... As the magma sinks, it drags the plates across the surface of the Earth. Where convection currents push plates together, destructive plate ...

Major Geological Events Seem to Follow a Rhythmic Pattern of 27.5 Million Years, Researchers Call It Earth’s ‘Pulse' Dozens ...

This finding challenges our current understanding of the Earth's plate tectonics—and presents the researchers with a major mystery. No one can see inside the Earth. Nor can anyone drill deep ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

According to a study published in Scientific Reports, anomalies deep within the Earth's mantle appear to be remnants of submerged tectonic plates—but located far from where such plates are ...