Plate Tectonics. The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. ... SCIENCE. Santorini is at the center of a mystery: ...

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

When plate tectonics emerged in the 1960s it became a unifying theory, “the first global theory ever to be generally accepted in the entire history of earth science,” writes Harvard University ...

Due to the abundance of nitrogen and carbon dioxide present in Venus’ atmosphere, the team believes that Venus must have had plate tectonics about 4.5 billion to 3.5 billion years ago after the ...

Plate tectonics is relatively new, put forth in the last 30 years or so — its forerunner was the now-discarded continental drift theory. The theory states that Earth's outer shell is made up of ...

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.

So like the plates themselves, it seems plate tectonics as a theory will continue to shift, too. Howard Lee is a freelance science writer focusing on climate changes in deep time.

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

Modern plate tectonics may have gotten under way as early as 3.2 billion years ago, about 400 million years earlier than scientists thought. That, in turn, suggests that the movement of large ...

Plate tectonics in the twenty-first century. Science China Press. Journal Science China Earth Sciences DOI 10.1007/s11430-022-1011-9 ...

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.