These fossils date from the Miocene epoch, around 11.6 to 12.7 million years ago, and ... And here’s where plate tectonics enters the evolutionary story of seahorses.

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

In the oceans, molluscs and crocodilians radiated into diverse new forms. Continents were arranged quite similarly to their configuration today, while plate tectonics pushed the Andes up from the ...

Plate tectonics in the twenty-first century. Science China Press. Journal Science China Earth Sciences DOI 10.1007/s11430-022-1011-9 ...

Plate Tectonics. The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 4 min read.

The combination of these factors could explain why Earth is the only planet known to exhibit plate tectonics today. In a 2022 study, Collins and his colleagues found that Jupiter's icy moon Europa ...

Plate tectonics may hold clue, study says UT Dallas researcher and colleague suggest that plate tectonics and the existence of oceans and continents are crucial for advanced life to develop.

These areas share a commonality: their evolution involves interactions between plate tectonics and mantle dynamics. However, ...

Plate tectonics are absolutely essential if complex life is to evolve, argue Robert Stern of the University of Texas at Dallas and Taras Gerya of ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to set off plate tectonics. By Lucas Joel Some 4.5 billion years ...