Earth has experienced many icehouse and greenhouse climates. A new study shows how they connect to plate tectonics.

Map of Earth's principal tectonic plates. Earth's lithosphere. Major and minor plates. arrows indicate direction of movement at plate boundaries. Vector illustration. Billions of years ago, Earth's ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new modeling study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, R. Dietmar ...

The tectonic plates are among the most powerful forces on Earth, exerting tremendous influence over every single life that unfolds on this planet. They are both creators and destroyers, capable of ...

Earthquakes happen due to sudden movement of tectonic plates and stress release along fault lines beneath the Earth’s crust. Learn causes of earthquakes, tectonic activity, seismic waves, earthquake ...

You’ve seen politics and national borders change all the time, but have you ever witnessed a continent literally breaking ...

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A hidden shard of ancient crust has been detected where California’s San Andreas system collides with the Cascadia subduction ...

Venus, a scorching wasteland of a planet according to scientists, may have once had tectonic plate movements similar to those believed to have occurred on early Earth, a new study found. PROVIDENCE, R ...

Scientists have long wondered how volcanoes formed in central Anatolia despite being far from tectonic plate borders—now they've found evidence of a hot plume of magma flowing from East Africa. Riders ...