Around five million years ago, Earth may have witnessed the largest flood in recorded history. This flood, according to ...

“The Mediterranean is a dog’s breakfast,” says Robert Stern, a plate tectonics expert at the University of Texas at Dallas who was not involved with the work. Within this messy ...

The oldest known bit of oceanic crust, located in the Mediterranean, dates to just 340 million years ago, making it far too young to be useful for pinpointing when plate tectonics arose.

the ancestors of seahorses were able to spread from their home base in the Mediterranean region to other areas, including Southeast Asia. And here’s where plate tectonics enters the ...

The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...

The oldest known bit of oceanic crust, located in the Mediterranean, dates to just 340 million years ago, making it far too young to be useful for pinpointing when plate tectonics arose.

According to the paper, which used computational models to predict future plate tectonics, the subduction zone in the Mediterranean underneath the Gibraltar Strait is expected to move further into ...

For these reasons, we conclude that most of the plate convergence in this region is aseismic 4. This conclusion is reinforced by present-day global positioning system (GPS) measurements ...

Six million years ago the Mediterranean Sea was a very different place than it is today. Plate tectonics had closed the Strait of Gibraltar separating modern-day Spain and Morocco, leaving the ...

If plate tectonics, oceans and continents are rare on worlds throughout the universe, that is. Alien life capable of communicating across interstellar space might not be able to evolve if its home ...