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

China is moving ahead with plans to construct the world’s largest hydropower dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo ...

The continents are in constant motion: Tectonic plates crash together and break apart, creating new crust while old crust is pulled below the surface. The process shrinks and widens oceans, uplifts ...

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