Plate Tectonics
A molten rock layer discovered hidden under Earth’s tectonic plates
The study might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move.
Giant mantle plume suggests Mars is more active than previously believed
The presence of an enormous mantle plume pushes the surface of Mars upward.
Europa’s plate tectonic activity is unlike Earth’s
The Europa has likely experienced intermittent, regional plate tectonic activity in the past.
Pacific Ocean will make way for the world’s next supercontinent on the planet
What would happen to Earth in the next 200 million years?
How the Earth’s continents were assembled?
Updating our understanding of Earth’s architecture.
4-billion-year-old crystals offer clues to when plate tectonics began
The study offers hints about how the planet became habitable.
The terrestrial mantle still contains remnants of Earth’s initial crust’s origins
Sampling the deep graveyard of Earth’s earliest crust.
Simulating common processes of formation of new subduction zones
How do these subduction zones originate, and how do they evolve over time?
Ancient rocks on the coast of Oman may reveal new insights into subduction
Mineral dating reveals new clues about the important tectonic processes.
Imbalanced forces in the Earth-moon-sun system drive circulation of the whole mantle
Tug of sun, the moon could be driving plate motions on ‘imbalanced’ Earth.
Surprisingly cool ‘hotspots’ found under Earth’s crust
The findings suggest current theories of how some volcanoes form may be too simple.