Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Although the Caribbean is well-known for its sunshine and beaches, it now has a new claim to fame in the world of plate tectonics." "It's wild to think that in some ways tectonic plates have a ...

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations ...

new video loaded: Trump’s Tariffs Are Part of a ‘Tectonic Plate Shift’ in the Global Economy transcript Peter R. Orszag, the C.E.O. of Lazard, discusses how markets are reacting to the ...

This finding enhances our comprehension of plate tectonics, the theory describing Earth’s surface formation and evolution, and contributes to a better understanding of continental separation and ...