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

Rethinking early Earth formation For decades, scientists have tried to identify when plate tectonics first began, marking the earliest evolution of life ... to formation The initial results from the ...

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

shows how the landmasses broke apart as the tectonic plates moved, creating the oceans and mountain ranges that we know today. The model showcases Earth’s evolution using a mesmerizing animation ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

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

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 ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution ... and magnitude of tectonic uplift and the ...