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 ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

The plate tectonics that cause earthquakes ... researchers used a machine-learning model to make this task easier. The scientists first fed the model data from 300 zircons of known origin and ...

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

Long-lost remnants of tectonic plates have been discovered sunken deep ... a plate boundary—anywhere near this region. A computer model visualization of material in the lower mantle.

Geology. The presence of oceans, continents and plate tectonics on Earth is most likely the reason there is no evidence for advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, according to new research by ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

Geophysicists find areas that resemble the results of tectonic plate collisions — far from any area of such activity.

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...