Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

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

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic tectonic collision that created the Himalayas.

India’s tectonic plate may be splitting into layers beneath Tibet, revealing mantle helium leaks and reshaping theories of ...

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

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

This surprising discovery comes just weeks after a major earthquake in Myanmar and could change how scientists understand the ...