"Plate tectonics unified all these descriptions and said that you should be able to describe all geologic features as though driven by the relative motion of these tectonic plates." How plate ...

New Curtin University research has revealed that the Ninetyeast Ridge—the Earth's longest straight underwater mountain ...

New research has revealed that the Ninetyeast Ridge -- the Earth's longest straight underwater mountain chain -- formed through a different process than previously believed. Stretching 5000 km along ...

Like all beautiful things, the Mediterranean Sea isn’t going to be around forever. As two of Earth’s great tectonic plates ...

Recent research from Curtin University has unveiled that the Ninetyeast Ridge — the Earth’s longest straight underwater ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

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

Recent research from Curtin University has unveiled groundbreaking insights about the Ninetyeast Ridge — the longest straight ...

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...