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

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

Study Suggests Earth Has Only Six Continents and Not Seven; 'The North American and European Plates Have Not Officially Broken Up' Examinations of a strip of land stretching from Greenland through ...

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

Scientists from Utrecht University have discovered two enormous structures deep in Earth's mantle, suggesting that these ...

Recently, I purchased a set of plates that looked like they were from the '70s, and I use them nearly every night. One evening while admiring the design, I began to wonder what year, exactly ...

Lijun Liu, of the University of Illinois, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on May 10, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, and a light ...

This subduction eroded portions of the continental rock, creating a funnel effect as tectonic plates collided and ground together. "You concentrate everything below the supercontinent," he said.

"It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks ... Cascade Range was primarily driven by the interaction of tectonic plates along the western edge of North America, with the small Juan de ...

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts beneath the Eurasian plate, reshaping our understanding of the forces ...