The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; ...

Scientists have uncovered one of the most exciting geological discoveries of the decade – the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate. This ancient “mega plate,” which once spanned an astonishing 15 ...

Geologists discover how a tectonic plate sank Date: November 14, 2016 Source: Saint Louis University Medical Center Summary: New information about conditions that can cause Earth's tectonic plates ...

What Darwinian evolution did for our understanding of the biological world, plate tectonics has performed in the sphere of geology. It is a theory of everything. Throughout the 19th and early 20th ...

Saint Louis University researchers report new information about conditions that can cause the Earth's tectonic plates to sink into the Earth.

The Earth’s crust is divided into distinct “tectonic plates” that are always slowly moving. Earthquakes are concentrated along these plate boundaries. via USGS ...

A study in Geology presents evidence that subduction can spread like a contagion, jumping from one oceanic plate to another — a hypothesis previously difficult to prove.

W. Jason Morgan, who in 1967 developed the theory of plate tectonics — a framework that revolutionized the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and the slow, steady shift of the continents across the ...