Earthquakes and volcanism occur as a result of plate tectonics. The movement of tectonic plates themselves is largely driven by the process known as subduction. The question of how new active ...

Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major ...

Earth has experienced many icehouse and greenhouse climates. A new study shows how they connect to plate tectonics.

The Earth’s crust has been going through a rocky break up for around 2.5 billion years. Estimating when the Earth’s ever-shifting tectonic plates first emerged and how they evolved is tricky. Previous ...

TORONTO, ON - Geoscientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and Istanbul Technical University have discovered a new process in plate tectonics which shows that tremendous damage occurs to areas ...

New research on the remixing of Earth's stratified deep interior suggests that global plate tectonic processes, which played a pivotal role in the existence of life on Earth, started to operate at ...

An early form of plate tectonics on a hotter young Earth may have been responsible for the initial rise of the Earth’s great landmasses and even for an increase in atmospheric oxygen levels, new ...

Tiny earthquakes have revealed potentially deadly hidden faults beneath California. By tracking swarms of very small tremors, ...

This rift is slowly pulling the African continent apart, and over millions of years, it could isolate the eastern portion of ...

For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ ...