Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

How are India-Argentina relations relevant to the UPSC exam? What significance do topics like India's rights in the WTO, the ...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon evaluates the importance of maintaining military and economic alliances amid shifting geopolitical "tectonic plates." ...

Scientists discovered a thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles, revealing that ancient basalt-rich rock in oceanic plates affects how they sink into Earth’s mantle, reshaping our ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be. These massive slabs, part of the lithosphere, meet at their edges where all the ...

Earth’s plate tectonics may be more than a geological phenomenon—it could be the spark that made life possible and a clue in the search for life beyond our planet.

Plate tectonics is a fundamental feature of Earth. As far as astronomers know, other planets may have broken-up crusts, yet ours is the only one with continually shifting plates.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why ‘stable’ parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet’s ...

Some geologists think it took a while for plate tectonics to emerge, no earlier than 2.8 billion years ago. Others argue it began much earlier (SN: 4/22/20).