In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 4 billion years ago, plate tectonics likely looked closer to what we ...

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over Earth's mantle. ... a 2023 study in the journal Science suggests.

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

A Hadean start to plate tectonics is an intriguing idea, T. Mark Harrison, a professor emeritus of geoscience at UCLA, told Live Science, but the evidence is still fairly minimal.

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

In this episode we will use everyday materials to learn about tectonic plates and fault lines. ... Science Academy Episode 24: Plate Tectonics . By Cat Taylor. Published: Mar. 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM CDT ...

Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

And theoretical modeling shows it's possible for plate tectonics to exist in Hadean conditions, Jun Korenaga, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Yale University, told Live Science.