Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

A geophysicist and marine geologist, Atwater is dubbed “The Mother of Plate Tectonics” for her extensive research in the field. She is best known for her work on the plate tectonic history of western ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

The Geological Society was founded in 1807, so plate tectonics came really late in its history. But it needed the right technologies and a relatively small group of scientists from strongly led ...

Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Plate tectonics may be responsible for evolution of life on Earth, say scientists. Billions of years ago, the breakup of our planet’s outer shell made the Earth stable and habitable.

William Jason Morgan, a leading scholar of plate tectonics and mantle movements, died on July 31 in his sleep, at the home he shared with his daughter and her family. He was 87. Morgan, Princeton ...

A new study makes the case that the solar system’s hellish second planet once may have had plate tectonics that could have made it more hospitable to life. By Kenneth Chang Venus today is not ...