Home plate tectonics

plate tectonics

Most popular

plate tectonics

World’s tectonic plate movement mapped

Geology Page - August 27, 2014

plate tectonics

Massive Ancient Tectonic Slab Found Below the Indian Ocean

Seafloor topography

plate tectonics

How the Pacific seafloor got its 60-degree bend

plate tectonics

Geologists discover how a tectonic plate sank

plate tectonics

“Lost continent” found under Mauritius

plate tectonics

Volcanic arcs form by deep melting of rock mixtures

Geology Page - April 9, 2017

plate tectonics

Mariana Trench “Deepest Part of the Ocean”

Geology Page - March 26, 2015

Dramatic cliffs on the shores of Lake Superior.

plate tectonics

What geologists got wrong about the world’s biggest failed rift

Geology Page - December 9, 2017

Earth's Layers

plate tectonics

New theory on how Earth’s crust was created

Geology Page - May 6, 2017

Time slices of the computational geodynamic model showing dripping continental root and eventual surface uplift over a 4.5 million year period across Turkey's Central Anatolian Plateau

plate tectonics

Geophysicists uncover new evidence for an alternative style of plate tectonics

Geology Page - November 29, 2017

Plate Tectonics

plate tectonics

What is Plate Tectonic?

Geology Page - October 21, 2017

Plate tectonics

plate tectonics

Earth’s tectonic plates are weaker than once thought

Geology Page - October 4, 2017

Lithospheric-scale processes involved in the precursor stage of formation of the Deseado Massif auriferous province.

plate tectonics

Plume-subduction interaction forms large auriferous provinces

Geology Page - October 22, 2017

plate tectonics

Geologist identifies hidden clues to ancient supercontinents, confirms Pannotia

Geology Page - April 6, 2018

plate tectonics

How continents were recycled

Geology Page - August 22, 2017

plate tectonics

Geology and biology agree on Pangaea supercontinent breakup dates

Geology Page - June 7, 2017

plate tectonics

What is the Wilson cycle?

Geology Page - January 9, 2013

plate tectonics

New ‘Embryonic’ Subduction Zone Found

Geology Page - June 18, 2013

plate tectonics

Measuring the strength of olivine, the most abundant mineral in the...

Geology Page - September 15, 2017

plate tectonics

When tectonics killed everything

Geology Page - November 25, 2013

plate tectonics

Tectonic plates ‘weaker than previously thought,’ say scientists

Geology Page - September 15, 2017

plate tectonics

‘Super-deep’ diamonds may hold new information about Earth’s interior

Geology Page - March 2, 2017

An illustration from the paper showing oxygen and hydrogen cycling in the deep Earth

plate tectonics

When water met iron deep inside the Earth, did it create...

Geology Page - November 14, 2017

plate tectonics

Plate tectonics shift?

Geology Page - December 15, 2016

plate tectonics

Diamond’s 2-billion-year growth charts tectonic shift in early Earth’s carbon cycle

Geology Page - February 23, 2017

12 3...11 Page 1 of 11

MOST POPULAR

Fossil avatars are transforming palaeontology

May 22, 2014

Gigantic concretions formed in mudstone on New Zealand's Moeraki coast; about 50 million years old. The present research shows that even concretions of this size formed very rapidly, within several decades.

Cracking open the formation of fossil concretions

May 2, 2018

Water vapor on Rosetta’s target comet significantly different from that found...

December 11, 2014

Pennsylvanian Period

March 30, 2014

MORE ARTICLES

Mars

Study: Water could be flowing on Mars now

Paleontology

Studying the distant past in the Galápagos Islands

ocean

Seafloor hot springs a significant source of iron in the oceans

Earthquake

10 Biggest Earthquakes in History