Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

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Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major ...

The Earth with the upper mantle revealed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock in a key region just below the tectonic ...

Research tracks deep carbon cycle over 540 million years, links icehouse and greenhouse phases to movement of tectonic plates ...

Woods Hole, Mass. — Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they ...

The Earth’s crust is made of pieces call the tectonic plates. These plates move and shift and change to the face of the planet. How do they move and how fast? Science Trek is available to stream on ...

The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic underwater landscape shaped by tectonic activity and volcanic processes. Among ...

The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move into the deepest reaches of the Earth is published in Nature today. Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one ...