Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study Earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

seismograms produced by volcano-tectonic earthquakes look like those produced by typical earthquakes (those caused by the motion of tectonic plates at plate boundaries, such as the San Andreas ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study the earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between Earth's brittle crust ...

but complex organisms like animals didn’t appear until about 600 million years ago, which is not long after the modern episode of plate tectonics began,” said Dr. Robert Stern, a professor of ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...

Look. The land on Earth is made up ... It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates. The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually ...