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

The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into separate parts, eventually creating the ...

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Layers of lava build up over time, creating volcanoes. Tectonic plates are key. They are large pieces of the Earth’s crust which can move towards, away from, or alongside one another ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

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?

Plate tectonics is a theory that explains how Earth’s lithosphere—its upper mantle and crust—is split into sections called plates, which move. These movements create mountains, volcanoes and ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...

With countries looking to move away from fossil fuels ... individual attention to maximize its potential. In contrast, tectonic plates on the ocean floor are a much more consistent geothermal ...