A team of researchers including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego geophysicist Dave Stegman has developed a new theory to explain the global motions of tectonic plates on the earth's ...

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Wegener didn't have an explanation for how continents could move around the planet, but researchers do now: Plate tectonics. We now think that Earth's outer shell is divided into large slabs of ...

The movement of these tectonic plates leads to earthquakes and volcanoes forming. Inner core The inner core is 2900 km below the Earth’s surface, in the centre of the Earth, and is the hottest ...

Depending on how they are defined, there are seven or eight major tectonic plates, along with many minor plates. These tectonic plates do move, but very slowly — 4 inches a year at most — and they don ...

Do tectonic plates move because of motion in the Earth's mantle, or is the mantle driven by the plates' movement? Or could it be that this question is ill-posed? This is the point of view adopted ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...