Plate boundaries are where the action is. A large fraction of all earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building occurs at plate boundaries. It is also where most of the people on Earth live.

But when did Earth's surface splinter into tectonic plates? And when did those plates start moving? It's an important question because plate tectonics seems to fuel the evolution and complexity of ...

This advanced undergraduate textbook provides a thoroughly modern overview of plate tectonics and is the perfect resource for a capstone geology course. It presents plate tectonics as a multifaceted, ...

Bruce Heezen, who had originally dismissed her discovery, eventually embraced her work, but it was often his name that ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

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Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

It also depicts coastlines, territorial limits, and the names of major ... where volcanoes are. This map also reveals where Zealandia sits across various tectonic plates, which of those plates ...

Modern-style plate tectonics, marked by continental crust subduction and deep slab break-off, began in the late Neoproterozoic (approximately 600–700 million years ago). Under the modern ...

Scuba diving at Iceland’s Silfra Fissure offers adventurers a chance to explore a submerged canyon between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates. Located in Þingvellir National Park ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...