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Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, ...

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A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global geography over millions of years.

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

In a new paper titled ‘Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic’, Duarte and his team write: “The aged oceanic ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which we ... on sediment-covered mid-ocean ridges. The ages of these deposits ...

These interactions create subduction zones, where one plate plunges beneath another, and oceanic ridges, where new crust forms. Plate tectonics is fueled by the Earth's internal heat, which causes ...