A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the ...

Each of these locations contained fragments of ancient oceanic crust that helped piece together the plate’s story. One of the most crucial discoveries came from northern Borneo. Initial analysis ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

And like an eggshell, the crust has cracked and split into many different pieces called tectonic plates. These plates can be oceanic, meaning they're found mainly under the ocean, or continental ...