Additional evidence surfaced in Palawan, an island in the western Philippines, and the South China Sea. These discoveries suggest that the Pontus plate was once part of a unified tectonic system ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...

Tsunami warning systems have seen significant advancements with the development of new technologies. However, there seem to ...

A new method integrates Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) with conventional ground geodetic networks, taking us closer to high-resolution mapping of plate motions.

About 150 million years ago, a massive tectonic mega-plate stretched across the Earth, spanning roughly a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean. Its jagged contours ran all the way through the ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

The second model was plate tectonics. On Earth, about 80 percent of volcanism occurs along mid-oceanic ridges where two tectonic plates are spreading apart and magma upwells.

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

Related: "Our study shows for the first time that the edges of the two tectonic plates were already quite high prior to the collision that created the Himalayas — about 3.5 kilometers [2.2 miles ...