During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate ...

The findings of a new study on a plate tectonics model could help better understand the factors driving earthquakes, the formation of mountains and the rifting of continents, the researchers said. ...

To create the map, the team combined three geological models: a plate model based on already known plate boundaries, a province model based on the geology of of Earth's surface, and an orogeny ...

The video isn't just a novelty. The University of Sydney said the ability to model plate tectonics like this will help scientists understand not just the physical movement of the plates, but also ...

New tectonic plate model shows how Earth was organized as a supercontinent 2.8 million years ago: ... 'Whereas others consider that plate tectonics appeared abruptly some one billion years ago.

“Plate tectonics 2.0 is a model of Earth evolution that includes not just oceanic plates but includes the continental plates,” Becker says.

The model shows one possible scenario for the origins of plate tectonics, but it lacks a mechanism for creating new lithosphere, as happens at the rift in the middle of the Atlantic, says ...

In the globe to the right, the blue is a sinking area on the Earth's surface, the beginnings of a plate boundary. "The idea of our model is that if I deform a rock, I'll actually make the grains ...

Present-day plate boundaries are red (modified from Bird, 2003), relevant former plate boundaries are gray. Marine magnetic anomalies are indicated by black lines, fracture zones are indicated by ...

The research provides chemical evidence that plate tectonics was most likely occurring more than 4.2 billion years ago when life is thought to have first formed on our planet.