Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s ...

Why the Iberian Peninsula Is Rotating Clockwise. At the heart of this discovery is the slow convergence of two massive ...

New data shows how the approach of the African and Eurasian plates is forcing displacement that will eventually close the ...

Plate tectonics can be visualized like large moving parts on the earth's crust. The constant movement of the plates causes major stresses, and, as a ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

An international team led by researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of Hong Kong ...

The tectonic plates are among the most powerful forces on Earth, exerting tremendous influence over every single life that unfolds on this planet. They are both creators and destroyers, capable of ...