The Pacific Ring of Fire is a tectonically active region with frequent earthquakes and volcanoes, spanning 40,000 km around ...

It’s surprising to find remnants of a plate that we just didn’t know about at all,” Suzanna van de Lagemaat, the Utrecht University geologist whose work has reversed decades of conventional wisdom ...

Chinese aircraft carrier strike groups have been operating further from home shores and in greater strength than ever before, testing state-of-the-art technology and sending a message they are a force ...

In a development that could reshape our understanding of tectonic movement, scientists have found massive fractures forming inside the Pacific Plate– the biggest tectonic plate on Earth. The ...

Scientists have discovered the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate, which once stretched across 15 million square miles. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) ...

The Indian plate began to move northward, moving as much as 9 cm/year and eventually ramming into the Eurasian plate millions of years ago. The collision between the two plates is what led to the ...

Discover the secrets of the dinosaur-era superstructure in the Pacific Ocean that is still forming. Learn about the Melanesian Border Plateau, its volcanic rocks enriched in rare elements, and its ...

In 1970, Russian geologists drilled a nine-inch wide hole into the Kola Peninsula’s Baltic Shield — a part of Earth’s crust with rock well over a billion years old — and began digging as deep as they ...

A geology PhD student at Utrecht University has reconstructed an ancient and previously unknown tectonic plate, thought to once have been a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean. Suzanna van de ...

Called Pontus, the 'mega-plate' was once 15 million square miles, about a quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean, report experts at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

In 2021, geologists animated a video that shows how Earth's tectonic plates moved over the last billion years. The plates move together and apart at the speed of fingernail growth, and the video ...