Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, my colleagues and I have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years. It is the first time Earth’s ...
Earth’s crust is a jigsaw of pieces that float atop the roiling liquids churning within the mantle. When these pieces, a.k.a. tectonic plates, move, their dance provokes continents to move farther or ...
It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Coincidence, or some more profound tectonic dance, when a dormant volcano erupts just days after a megaquake? Geoscientists have long wondered about this, and the April eruption of Russia’s Kamchatka ...