Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

A deep, rhythmic pulse has been found surging like a heartbeat deep under Africa. At the Afar triple junction under Ethiopia, ...

Based on a series of models considering how the continents were assembled over time, researchers created an updated map of Earth's tectonic plates.

Learn more about the pounding plume of molten rock that's beneath Ethiopia, forcing its three tectonic plates to separate.

When exactly plate tectonics emerged and how it has evolved ... scientists investigated so-called "metamorphic rocks" from 564 sites around the world that have formed over the past three ...

This desolate expanse sits atop the juncture of three tectonic plates that are very slowly peeling away from each other, a complex geological process that scientists say will eventually cleave ...

Underwater robot discovers a never-before-seen creature at the junction of three tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean - as baffled viewers dub it the 'forbidden toilet scrubber' ...

Scientists have said that the 35-mile-long crack in the Ethiopian desert is the first indicator that the three tectonic plates under the area are very slowly peeling away from each other.

An illustration of Earth 250 million years ago when the megacontinent Pangaea existed At three moments in the past, Earth’s geological activity picked up the pace. Its tectonic plates moved 30 ...

A so-called strike-slip movement was the cause of the deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake near the Turkey-Syria border, where three tectonic plates are sliding past each other along an existing fault ...