Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have persisted for hundreds of millions of years, others have vanished, sinking ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

At the center of this conversation is the concept that these tectonic plates could still be pulling apart in unexpected ways. Some experts say this updated view could affect how we classify continents ...

Many earthquakes in Washington state stem from the boundary between two tectonic plates: the Juan de Fuca and the North American. These gigantic slabs of the Earth's crust are constantly in motion ...

MAPLE VALLEY, Wash. — A preliminary earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale hit 16.2 kilometers southwest of Maple Valley, Washington, early this morning. According to the Pacific ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

It has vast water oceans and abundant life. But Earth is also unique because it is the only planet with plate tectonics, which shaped its geology, climate and possibly influenced the evolution of ...

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