Things may be moving on Venus’ surface. In 1983, researchers discovered that the planet’s surface was speckled with strange, circular landforms. These rounded mountain belts, known as coronae, have no ...

Now, 50 years after the event, he may finally have an answer: The bottom of the tectonic plate off ... one of the biggest unsolved problems in plate tectonics,” Duarte says.

The 50-kilometer-wide seamount contains three dormant volcanoes, the floor of which drops more than two kilometers below the ...

Earth’s geological evolution is aslow but constant process, with tectonic movements driving significant changes over millions ...

Earth’s crust is divided into huge, rigid tectonic plates that move across ... One of the most significant recent discoveries in plate tectonics is the confirmation of the Pontus plate, which ...

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting ... A detailed 3D understanding of the boundaries and interactions between tectonic ...

An animation of the Plate Tectonics process of Convergent boundaries, also called Orogeny, that form certain mountains chains. Tingvellir National Park, Walk between two tectonic plates. The ...

This has enabled us to make an attempt at mapping the planet over the last 40% of its history, which you can see in the animation ... plate margins. By reconstructing where ancient plate boundaries ...

Researchers in China and Australia have created an animation that details Earth's tectonic movements over the past 1.8 billion years. In just over a minute, the video offers a mesmerizing look at ...

New research has now reconstructed and animated the Earth's plate tectonics for the past 1.8 billion years, and created an animation of these events. The video covers about forty percent of the planet ...