Now, scientists have uncovered one of these missing pieces—the Pontus plate—shedding new light on Earth’s geological past and how the planet continues to evolve. The Earth’s crust is divided into ...

Continental plates are usually quite thick (between 35 to 70 km) compared to the much thinner oceanic plates (between 5 and 10 km). The oceanic rocks are ... area where two tectonic plates are ...

If the findings are correct, these battered rocks might be the earliest evidence of horizontal plate movements, the ...

Geodynamics Modeling; Large Igneous Provinces and Global Climate Perturbations; Tectonics and Magmatism at Large Igneous Provinces and Divergent Plate Boundaries I have intrinsic motivation in ...