Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.