This advanced undergraduate textbook provides a thoroughly modern overview of plate tectonics and is the perfect resource for a capstone geology course. It presents plate tectonics as a multifaceted, ...

If real, that version of plate tectonics looks nothing like Earth's. But it shows the diversity of planetary geology that could lurk elsewhere in the cosmos. "In the end, understanding what causes ...

But when did Earth's surface splinter into tectonic plates? And when did those plates start moving? It's an important question because plate tectonics seems to fuel the evolution and complexity of ...

Such findings broaden our understanding of planetary geology and hint at where habitable conditions might exist. Studying ...

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary ... This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and ...

Commenting on the geological development, Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist and a professor based at the University of ...

KUNMING, Nov. 7 (China Economic Net) - From October 22 to 25, Yunnan Land and Resources Vocational College, China, in collaboration with University of Baltistan, Pakistan, successfully conducted four ...