Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and ...

The tectonic plates under Africa and Asia are slowly drifting apart, as the Gulf of Suez that separates these two land masses ...

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New seismic data reveals that the Indian tectonic plate is breaking apart deep beneath Tibet, in a phenomenon scientists call ...

Tulane researchers uncover why some continental plates stay strong while others fracture, reshaping understanding of Earth’s tectonic behavior.

Earthquake faults deep in the Earth can glue themselves back together following a seismic event, according to a new study led ...

The theory of plate tectonics is strikingly recent in scientific history, which was widely accepted in the early 1960's. Now, scientists have discovered an alternative style to plate tectonics and ...

Is Iceland on two tectonic plates? You'll discover it in this quiz.A lot of us love traveling. It's because we can explore ...

The shape of the Earth's oceans and continents is dictated inexorable movements of the tectonic plates, but where did those ...