Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new modeling study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, R. Dietmar ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

Plate tectonics is a fundamental feature of Earth. As far as astronomers know, ... which are more likely to retain their heat and have longer periods of active plate tectonics. ...

The new study suggests plate tectonics started more than 4 billion years ago — not long after the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago. In this era, known as the Hadean, Earth was fresh and ...

Experts aren’t sure what prompted the land mass’ rise from the sea, but it may be from cyclical sea changes or tectonic plate ...

Plate tectonics also may have enabled life to recover from devastating mass extinctions. For instance, at the end of the Permian period, ...

Image of the tectonic plates making up the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic may start to close in around 20 million years. Elliot Lim, CIRES & NOAA/NCEI ...

New Species Emerged As Tectonic Plates Shifted: Surprise Discovery All signs of coelacanths mysteriously vanished from the fossil record, at the end of the Cretaceous period.