"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Visuals that reproduce nearly two billion years of movement are essential to research initiatives that dig into Earth's history, geologic periods, and hidden tectonic plates.

The movement of these tectonic plates leads to earthquakes and volcanoes ... at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very ...

Tectonic plates are also not fixed — they move around atop the mantle and are driven by convection currents of molten magma. Although their movement ... accurate maps encompassing a uniform ...

and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from Scotese about tectonic plate motions — past and present — and Earth history, check out his YouTube page.

Long-lost remnants of tectonic plates have been discovered sunken deep ... billion years ago and has survived despite the convective movements in the mantle, or zones where iron-rich rocks ...

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological techniques, researchers sugges ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants ... years ago and has survived despite the convective movements in the mantle,” Thomas Schouten, first author of ...