An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate -- the ocean floor ... with sediment over the past 15 million years.

Earth's lithosphere — its crust and rigid upper mantle — is split into roughly 15 constantly-moving plates. These plates are perpetually shifting, colliding and pulling apart from one another.

At the center of this conversation is the concept that these tectonic plates could still be pulling apart in unexpected ways. Some experts say this updated view could affect how we classify continents ...

Using this method, scientists can develop models of the Earth’s interior that show where submerged plates formed along subduction zones (which is when a plate goes under, or subducts ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate is breaking off horizontally with a tear progressively ...