Latest about plate tectonics
Continental Drift: The groundbreaking theory of moving continents
Continental drift was Alfred Wegener's theory proposing continents move position on the Earth's surface.
Earth tipped on its side (and back again) in 'cosmic yo-yo' 84 million years ago
A new study has confirmed a longstanding theory that Earth's crust tilted to the side, and eventually back again, around 84 million years ago.
Earth has a 'pulse' of 27.5 million years
Most major geological events in Earth's recent history have clustered in 27.5-million-year intervals — a pattern that scientists are now calling the "pulse of the Earth."
Plate tectonics are 3.6 billion years old, oldest minerals on Earth reveal
The hidden chemistry of ancient zircon crystals has revealed the age of Earth's tectonic plates.
Swarm of 20,000 earthquakes could make Iceland's volcanoes erupt
A swarm of more than 20,000 earthquakes has rattled southern Iceland this week, and geologists suspect a volcanic eruption is on the way.
Earth's mountains disappeared for a billion years, and then life stopped evolving
For a billion years Earth's mountains stopped growing, and may have starved the sea of nutrients, new research finds.
The Atlantic Ocean is widening. Here’s why.
Sizzling-hot rocks are rising up and pushing on the plates on either side of the Atlantic.
'Lost' tectonic plate called Resurrection hidden under the Pacific
A new computer reconstruction of the tectonic plates of 60 million years ago reveals the existence of a lost plate called Resurrection.
