Map of the Word with lines marking boundaries of tectonic plates. Plate tectonics is a theory that explains how Earth’s lithosphere—its upper mantle and crust—is split into sections called ...

Plate tectonics, the theory that underpins Earth's geological activity, shapes our planet with mountains, shifting continents ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Analysis of historical earthquake records and interseismic deformation across the East Anatolian Fault Zone suggests that coseismic slip in the 2023 earthquakes strongly corresponded to the slip ...

But that theory may require some revisions according ... continent-sized “out of tune” geological islands located inside a tectonic plate “graveyard” 1,800-feet-below the planet’s ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...