As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

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, no ...

A stunning new study is challenging the conventional wisdom about Earth’s continents. For years, we’ve been taught that Earth ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

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

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate -- the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents -- is ...

At the center of this conversation is the concept that these tectonic plates could still be pulling apart in unexpected ways. Some experts say this updated view could affect how we classify continents ...