Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

And the models generated from these seismic recordings have shown scientists, over time, exactly where plates have pushed ...

Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, ...

All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks of Earth's crust. This movement may be why life exists here. Earth is the only known planet with plate tectonics ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

The Blue Ghost mission to the moon has deployed one its NASA instruments, drilling into the moon's surface to collect ...

“On Earth, this early impact record has seemingly been lost, reflecting the destructive efficiency of erosion and subduction ...

At first glance, landscapes like the Great Plains and the Rockies may seem unchanging, but over geological time scales, ...

The course provides an overview of the Earth's tectonic evolution in the context of plate tectonics. The first part of the course consists of lectures giving a systematic description of geological ...

This study out of the University of Houston points to a new theory that as North America began to split away, the Great Lakes ...