Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

A geological phenomenon is occurring in the heart of East Africa that could forever alter the Earth’s map. A new ocean is in the process of forming, a consequence of tectonic movements that are ...

Plate tectonics also exposes rocks that react ... Earth's history is a leap forward in the scientific grand challenge to map ...

This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from the Eurasian and Arabian tectonic plates ... providing one of the most detailed maps of the bottom of the world's oceans ever ...

Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the ... moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very, very, very slowly.

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