The undersea plate boundary beneath the Strait of Gibraltar, known as the Gibraltar arc, is slowly moving into the Atlantic ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

Satellite data has unveiled a captivating geological phenomenon demonstrating that Earth’s crust is "dripping" under the ...

To do it, a team led by researchers at UC Berkeley assembled what may be the largest seismic dataset ever used to study this ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The plate tectonics that determine the shape of our continents may have originated from a huge impact billions of years ...

Scientists have discovered a Jurassic tectonic plate boundary that could help to predict what the planet might look like ...

The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move into the deepest reaches of the Earth is published in Nature today. Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one ...

Utrecht University PhD candidate Suzanna van de Lagemaat has reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. She reconstructed ...

Scientists have discovered a huge tectonic boundary under Africa, running from Mozambique to Tanzania.