A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

Tectonics in Puerto Rico are dominated by the convergence between the North America and Caribbean tectonic plates. More earthquakes are possible in Puerto Rico, as is a risk for tsunamis.

In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...

A team of researchers including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego geophysicist Dave Stegman has developed a new theory to explain the global motions of tectonic plates on the earth ...

While rare, Redding does get earthquakes strong enough for us to feel. Here's why Shasta and Siskiyou counties and the north ...

The east coast of North America was once as wild as the West, with massive mountains rising between colliding tectonic plates, volcanoes belching lava and giant faults slicing the crust. That's ...

Precisely what Earth looked like before plate tectonics, which drive these chunks of crust around, bumping and grinding into one another, is an open question.During the Archean eon 4 billion to 2. ...

In some cases the space is so narrow, you can touch North America and Europe at once. ... Swim between two tectonic plates. 25 June 2014. Share Save. Talia Avakian. Features correspondent.

Scientists gather for a London conference to celebrate 50 years since the formulation of plate tectonics theory. ... Post-war computers were used to show South America and Africa really did match up ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

A diagram of a diamond explosion. Gemological Science International. For example, the researchers found the break-up of the supercontinent Gondwana into Africa and South America, which occurred ...

Geophysicists have developed a new theory to explain the global motions of tectonic plates on the earth's surface. ... the tectonic evolution of western North America, in the past 50 million years.