Based on a series of models considering how the continents were assembled over time, a team of researchers at the University of Adelaide created an updated map ... boundaries of the tectonic plates.

Rifts and ridges The world ocean floor map created by Marie Tharp ... nearly half a billion years before tectonics, as implied by this study, it raises interesting questions about how life might ...

Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of ... moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very, very, very slowly.

Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate ... far from the edges of plates. Although these earthquakes are much less common, they are due to the same forces that cause ...

Scientists studying rocks in South Africa report evidence for the earliest known earthquake triggered by plate tectonics ... saw the map, he spotted something surprising: The distribution of ...

"Plate tectonics unified all these descriptions and said that you should be able to describe all geologic features as though driven by the relative motion of these tectonic plates." How plate ...

Most geologic activity stems from the interplay where the plates meet or divide. The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries ... connects the world's oceans, making ...