From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new modeling study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, R.

This process, known as plate tectonics, may be the very reason life thrives on Earth. Uniquely, Earth is the only planet known to have both plate tectonics and life, a coincidence that many ...

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, ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new modeling study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, R.

For a long time this theory was widely accepted despite only limited evidence of convection currents ever being found, as modern imaging techniques have not been able to identify convection currents ...

When two plates collide they form a destructive margin - this is also known as a convergent margin as two plates are converging. The resulting effect is dependent on what sort of plates are colliding.