He collected more than 700 images taken from seismic detectors around the world and created a global ... the weak mantle layer below the tectonic plates that enables the plates to move — is ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet ... It starts with the map of the world familiar to everyone.

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet ... It starts with the map of the world familiar to everyone.

Because of this constant planetary recycling, the oldest incontrovertible evidence of plate tectonics — rocks formed solely in subduction zones — dates back only around 700 million years.

According to a study published in Scientific Reports, anomalies deep within the Earth's mantle appear to be remnants of submerged tectonic plates—but located far from where such plates are ...