The Andes Mountains are much taller than plate tectonic theories predict they should be, a fact that has puzzled geologists for decades. Mountain-building models tend to focus on the deep-seated ...

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A groundbreaking study in Science Advances reveals that Earth's tectonic plates are breaking apart under the Cascadia ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

Latitude shapes climate in a basic but powerful way. It controls the angle of sunlight, which helps decide whether a place ...

HOUSTON -- (May 29, 2018) -- New simulations of Earth's asthenosphere find that convective cycling and pressure-driven flow can sometimes cause the planet's most fluid layer of mantle to move even ...

An international team of Earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that ...

Our world’s surface is a jumble of jostling tectonic plates, with new ones emerging as others are pulled under. The ongoing cycle keeps our continents in motion and drives life on Earth. But what ...

In 2021, geologists animated a video that shows how Earth's tectonic plates moved over the last billion years. The plates move together and apart at the speed of fingernail growth, and the video ...

When tectonic plates sink into the Earth they look like slinky snakes! That's according to a study published in Nature, which helps answer a long standing question about what happens to tectonic ...