An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge ...

While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

These plate remains were found lurking underneath the center of other continental plates, far from tectonic boundaries, according to a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports. One of these ...

Continental plates are usually quite thick (between 35 to 70 km) compared to the much thinner oceanic plates (between 5 and 10 km). The oceanic rocks are usually made from basalt, while ...

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?

This is understandable, given that knowledge about the Earth's tectonic plates was formed during a period when we also discovered fossil fuel reserves offshore from continental shelves.

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate -- the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents -- is ...