This advanced undergraduate textbook provides a thoroughly modern overview of plate tectonics and is the perfect resource for a capstone geology course. It presents plate tectonics as a multifaceted, ...

The Earth’s surface is a dynamic mosaic of geological features and tectonic activity, evolving over billions of years. Understanding this intricate interplay is crucial for unraveling the planet’s ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller, or minor ...

Earth’s surface is made up of different sections called tectonic plates. Most mountains are fold mountains, which means they’re created when two tectonic plates collide, and they force the ...

A significant geological shift is gradually reshaping our planet's surface. Scientists have uncovered evidence of a new ocean ...

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may be about to change ...

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Planets on the inner edge of extrasolar habitable zones could be habitable for a couple of billion years longer than previously thought.

"The Moho is a really interesting boundary for seismologists because it tells us what's happening within and between tectonic plates at depth," says Atterholt, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at ...

GNS released a high resolution update to the national Active Faults Database, detailing where the active faults are across the motu.