Dive into the world beneath your feet and discover what tectonic plates are, how they move, and why they're responsible for ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ago, we see the emergence of Pangaea, the supercontinent associated with ...

Have tectonic plates changed speed over the last 3 billion ... measured ancient magnetic fields and dated rocks from Western Australia to show that the “Pilbara Craton”—an early continent ...

Deposits of deep-pink sand washing up on South Australian shores shed new light on when the Australian tectonic plate began to subduct beneath the Pacific plate, as well as the presence of ...

About 300 to 200 million years ago, the Australian tectonic plate was part of the supercontinent, Pangea, when all of Earth’s landmasses were joined together. As the landmasses began to separate ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

Stretching from Australia to Eurasia ... the process in which one tectonic plate sinks beneath another into the mantle. But traces of its existence remained hidden in the geological record.

This fascinating divide is called Wallace’s Line. It’s named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist who noticed the sharp ...

Deposits of deep-pink sand washing up on South Australian shores shed new light on when the Australian tectonic plate began to subduct beneath the Pacific plate, as well as the presence of ...