The history of the Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

The rocks didn’t look like much from the outside. Scattered across a remote stretch of western Australia called North Pole ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago.

Direct evidence of the movements of tectonic plates has been found in some of the world’s oldest rocks, in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. This evidence dates back 3.5 billion years; the ...

London, had a mystery on its hands. A rather attractive, triangular, but ultimately mysterious lump of blue mineral. The rest ...

The colossal movements of tectonic plates shape our world, influencing the composition of Earth’s atmosphere, the planet’s ...

By Kermit Pattison / Harvard Staff WriterThe history of the Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates.The motions of plates shaped land ...

A new study shows the oldest-yet direct evidence of plate movement by 3.5 billion years ago. In a study published March 19 in Science, the team demonstrated that plate movements—though not necessarily ...

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor. Its formation was long thought to be the result of simple stretching of ...

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study reveals that the underlying geology is significantly more complex than current ...