Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging the idea that these ancient crustal structures are immovable. Seismic imaging ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

A massive eruption of magma around 135 million years ago may have been the driving force behind the tectonic rift that split ...

A local geologist says the tectonic plate movement that caused last week's earthquake in Myanmar was also behind the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that left over 200,000 people dead in Indonesia.

The earthquake, which occurred along the Sagaing Fault, is attributed to the movement of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in ...

National Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China ...

to the Pleistocene, directed by plate tectonic forces in connection with the Red Sea-rifting and the collision of the Arabian with the Eurasian Plates.

to the Pleistocene, directed by plate tectonic forces in connection with the Red Sea-rifting and the collision of the Arabian with the Eurasian Plates.