Forces acting inside the Earth have been constantly reshaping the continents and ocean basins over millions of years. What Alfred Wegener published as an idea in 1915 has finally been accepted since ...

Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust. Rather, two plates move against each other, building up tension, then releasing the tension in a sudden and often violent jerk. This sudden jerk ...

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

Crustal brines at an oceanic transform fault New research explores geological processes along plate boundaries Date: April 13, 2025 Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summary: A team ...

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

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to learn about tectonic plates and fault lines. A subduction fault is when two plates have different densities.

Woods Hole, Mass. (February 12, 2024) – Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate scientist in the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry ...

We often affiliate plate tectonics with earthquakes, as we are all taught in school that the shifting of plates leads to big shakes. But plate tectonics serve a far more important job to the planet ...