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

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...

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 ...

This hidden geological layer, located between 254 and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) beneath the Earth’s surface, covers ...

This exciting research will investigate the intersection of plate tectonics ... following: tectonics, earth-systems modelling, field geology, metamorphic geology, geochronology, sedimentary geology, ...

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

A transform fault happens when tectonic plates grind together, shearing blocks of crust from the plate. This leads to large displacement of rocks, and a whole lot of earthquakes. This is how the ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

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 ...