Now, 50 years after the event, he may finally have an answer: The bottom of the tectonic plate off Portugal's coast seems to be peeling away from its top. This action may be providing the ...

they may have existed when the planet was young and before plate tectonics were established. He said that using both gravity data and topography data, scientists were able to get a better idea of ...

This ancient “mega plate,” which once spanned an astonishing 15 million square miles of Earth’s surface, has been hidden deep beneath the planet’s crust for millions of years.

Getty The Earth may eventually have a new ocean. Tectonic plate movement under a section of Northern Africa could pull the area that is currently Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea away from the rest ...

The Africa–Eurasia plate boundary presents one of the world’s most varied and dynamic tectonic settings—encompassing subduction zones, strike-slip faults ...

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The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright skepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the "strongest evidence" of ...

Considerable geochemical evidence supports initiation of plate tectonics on Earth shortly after the end of the Hadean. Nb/Th and Th/U of mafic-ultramafic rocks from the depleted upper mantle began to ...

This continental “transform fault” marks the boundary between two of Earth’s massive tectonic plates that include the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. The Pacific Plate is moving ...

Classroom resources to help schools promote a broader understanding of the Stolen Generations ...