Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

"Recent studies found, that the movements of the tectonic plates are slowly increasing over the course of history. In this ...

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Several structures, a.k.a. tectonic plates, seemed to be sitting there, untouched since the evolution of Earth billions of ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in ...

The West Coast of North America is a geologically tumultuous zone where tectonic plates collide, subducting under and ...

Strange, quasi-circular circles structures called coronae scour the surface of Venus — but their origins are a mystery.

Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

Why does humanity live on a planet orbiting a rare G-type dwarf star (like our Sun) when M-type red dwarfs comprise 82% of ...

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