Recently, a team used the archival Magellan data to find evidence that tectonic activity is happening below Venus ... they may have existed when our planet was young and before plate tectonics had ...

The volcanic activity and tectonic splitting of ... hot blob of rock from the core-mantle boundary is present beneath East Africa, it is driving the plates apart and propping up the Africa ...

Tectonics is the study of the structural ... This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and ...

The rifts are the manifestation of the African tectonic plate being ... of rock from the core-mantle boundary is present beneath East Africa. It is driving the plates apart and propping up the ...

Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research based on data gathered more than 30 years ago by NASA's Magellan mission.