At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the ...

A dramatic and cataclysmic event occurred over 5 million years ago, when water from the Atlantic Ocean surged through the ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Plate tectonics is relatively new, put forth in the last 30 years or so — its forerunner was the now-discarded continental drift theory. The theory states that Earth's outer shell is made up of ...

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

such as the Campi Flegrei volcano in Italy - where the Eurasian plate and the African Atlantic plate are moving towards each other along the Mediterranean sea.

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Although a tectonic plate moves very gradually ... For example, in 50 million years, Africa will move so far north that the Mediterranean Sea will disappear, and 100 million years in the future ...

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the process of subduction, in which one tectonic plate slides under another.