The three major tectonic plates off the Pacific Northwest coast are undergoing a gradual shift, and the area in which they converge -- popularly known as the "Triple Junction" -- appears to be ...

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

Earth's tectonic plates formed when 'massive molten plumes' ripped the crust apart: Tears formed and spread across the planet three billion years ago ...

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 ...

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

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' ...

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 ...

Plate tectonics – the large-scale movement of Earth’s lithosphere or outer layers – started around three billion years ago, but how those movements started was a bit of a mystery – until ...

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.

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 ...

The three major tectonic plates off the Pacific Northwest coast are undergoing a gradual shift, and the area in which they converge – popularly known as the "Triple Junction" – appears to be ...