A hidden shard of ancient crust has been detected where California’s San Andreas system collides with the Cascadia subduction ...

Forces acting inside the Earth have been constantly reshaping the continents and ocean basins over millions of years. What Alfred Wegener published as an idea in 1915 has finally been accepted since ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

The audience was stunned. Atwater was the first person to use the newly revealed secrets of the seafloor to explain a ...

Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust. Rather, two plates move against each other, building up tension, then releasing the tension in a sudden and often violent jerk. This sudden jerk ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to learn about tectonic plates and fault lines. A subduction fault is when two plates have different densities.

p. 126-129: We are not going to do much with the historical development of plate tectonic theory. BUT if you are planning to go to graduate schol in geology, this stuff is on the Geology GRE, so if ...

We often affiliate plate tectonics with earthquakes, as we are all taught in school that the shifting of plates leads to big shakes. But plate tectonics serve a far more important job to the planet ...