The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

In the English National Curriculum this film can be used to help teach the following: Physical geography relating to geological timescales and plate tectonics.

Structural geology and tectonics projects commonly include fieldwork components and are typically ... and have dived and drilled in thousands of meters of water to observe and take samples from active ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere.

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

certain aspects of Earth's geology keep the plate tectonic engine chugging along. For a planet to sustain plate tectonics, it must have a convective mantle, Foley said. Cold, dense surface ...

Research in structural geology and tectonics seeks to define how and why deformation occurs within the earth ... mountain belts and oceans, and how the history of plate motions has shaped topics as ...