The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust ... like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into ...

Visuals that reproduce nearly two billion years of movement are essential to research initiatives that dig into Earth's history, geologic periods, and hidden tectonic plates.

It is also where most of the people on Earth live. In this lesson, students use scientific data to learn how the scientific process works. They learn where the Earth's tectonic plates and their ...

This program explores the composition of our Earth, and delves deep into the tectonic plates, their history and the different types of processes and ... Islander peoples as the First Australians and ...

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?

Whatever drives the movement, plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries, where new crust is formed; convergent boundaries, where crust is consumed ...

The finding demonstrates that plate ... movements before 3 billion years ago," study co-author Timothy Kusky, director of the Center for Global Tectonics at the China University of Geosciences ...