Plate tectonics can trigger ice ages through the production of the carbon-trapping mineral smectite, according to a new study. MIT geologists have found that a clay mineral on the seafloor, called ...

At some point between 300 million and 1 billion years ago, a large cosmic object smashed into the planet Venus, leaving a crater more than 170 miles in diameter. A team of Brown University researchers ...

Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth's crust that might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move. Researchers had previously identified ...

New finding contradicts previous assumptions about the role of mobile plate tectonics in the development of life on Earth. Moreover, the data suggests that 'when we're looking for exoplanets that ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

The activity of the solid Earth – for example, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Japan, etc – is well understood within the context of the ~50-year-old theory of plate tectonics. This theory posits ...

In Global Tectonics and the FLood Dr John Baumgardner examines how catastrophic plate tectonics could have been a major mechanism in the Genesis Flood model Using the cuttingedge 3D model known as ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did this process begin? When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Aim: We aimed to assess the relative influence of the historical and contemporary processes determining global patterns of current β-diversity. Specifically, we quantified the relative effects of ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 376, No. 2132, Discussion meeting issue: Earth dynamics and the development of plate tectonics (13 November 2018), pp.