Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major ...

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

A hidden shard of ancient crust has been detected where California’s San Andreas system collides with the Cascadia subduction ...

Earthquakes happen due to sudden movement of tectonic plates and stress release along fault lines beneath the Earth’s crust.

An enduring question in geology is when Earth’s tectonic plates began pushing and pulling in a process that helped the planet evolve and shaped its continents into the ones that exist today. Some ...

LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Renaissance polymath Leonard da Vinci demonstrated frictional forces slow down the motion of surfaces in contact. Friction, he determined, is proportional to normal force. When two ...

The movement of tectonic plates may take millions of years, but in Northern Ethiopia, you can see it happen in real time. In ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth's crust that might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move. Researchers had previously identified ...

The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move into the deepest reaches of the Earth is published in Nature today. Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one ...