With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

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

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents.

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

Geologists have uncovered a long-lost continental fragment buried beneath the thick ice of Greenland, a discovery that offers ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

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Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.