The undersea plate boundary beneath the Strait of Gibraltar, known as the Gibraltar arc, is slowly moving into the Atlantic ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The plate tectonics that determine the shape of our continents may have ...

Plate tectonics, or the shifting of plates across a planet or moon, may be the key to lifeforms developing as an advanced species. And the rarity of plate tectonics elsewhere in the universe may be ...

The colossal movements of tectonic plates shape our world, influencing the composition of Earth’s atmosphere, the planet’s protective magnetic field and perhaps even the flourishing of life. Now ...

A new study challenges long-held views that Yellowstone’s volcanic activity is fueled by a deep mantle plume, instead pointing to tectonic forces stretching and tilting the crust. Researchers used 3D ...

In 2016, the geochemists Jonas Tusch and Carsten Münker hammered a thousand pounds of rock from the Australian Outback and airfreighted it home to Cologne, Germany. Five years of sawing, crushing, ...

Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth's crust that might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move. Researchers had previously identified ...

A global seismic study has revealed that ancient tectonic slabs buried 1,800 miles below Earth's surface are still deforming the lowermost mantle near the core-mantle boundary. Using over 16 million ...

Make sure you pencil this into your long-term calendar, estimates place the death of plate tectonics here on Earth at 1.45 billion years from now. The existence of plate tectonics on Earth makes it ...