Volcanoes erupt frequently in Indonesia—this is linked to tectonic plate boundaries and subduction zones. Here's the science ...

Researchers have discovered an unusual plume of magma beneath Oman that may have changed the course of the Indian tectonic ...

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, ...

By analysing how the Earth's plates moved in the past, the researchers concluded that the Dani plume likely arrived during ...

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.

Scientists have been baffled to discover solid rock flowing 1,700 miles (2,700km) beneath the Earth's surface.

“It’s one of the biggest unsolved problems in plate tectonics,” Duarte says ... Importantly, the model does seem to explain the unusual featureless expanse that lies above the earthquake's ...

Alfred Wagner proposed a theory in 1912 that paved the way for plate tectonics. Wagner’s concept of continental drift was used to explain what happened when the supercontinent of Pangaea broke ...

Understanding its current, single-lid geology could help scientists figure out why the two planets' fates diverged, and whether plate tectonics may explain why one planet hosts life and the other ...

Plate tectonic theory is among the most brilliant ... But deeper changes in the economy over the past half-century or so may help to explain voter resentment against an economic system that ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...