A recent NASA-funded study has unveiled groundbreaking details about Venus’ crust that challenge previous assumptions about ...

are where tectonic plates pull apart due to convection ... When the oceanic plate is forced below the continental plate it melts to form magma and earthquakes are triggered. The plate melts ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth's hotter twin, according to new ...

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary ... E-W extension within the Central Anatolian plate via pure normal faulting, as indicated by zircon U-Th-Pb ...

Venus has a crust that is all one piece, with no evidence of subduction caused by plate tectonics like on Earth.

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes ... The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another ...

It has vast water oceans and abundant life. But Earth is also unique because it is the only planet with plate tectonics, which shaped its geology, climate and possibly influenced the evolution of ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.

India’s tectonic plate may be splitting into layers beneath Tibet, revealing mantle helium leaks and reshaping theories of mountain formation and plate tectonics.