For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief of the Indian plate smoothly sliding under the Eurasian plate. Seismic data reveals the Indian plate is ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called "polymetallic nodules.

Because of this, plate tectonics is also thought to be intimately connected to the development of life on Earth. The movement of tectonic plates produces volcanic activity at their boundaries. But at ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

The earthquake, which occurred along the Sagaing Fault, is part of ongoing tectonic activity in the region, where the Indian Plate is s... The powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake, which killed ...