Tectonic plates are massive slabs of solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer, known as the lithosphere. These plates float on the semi-fluid layer beneath them called the asthenosphere. Earth’s ...

The Pontus oceanic plate that was reconstructed by Suzanna van de Lagemaat: its location in the paleo-Pacific ocean 120 million years ago, and its present relicts. An earlier study showed that a large ...

Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major earthquakes. The hidden processes that drive earthquakes cause a lot of commotion ...

The discovery of this hidden molten rock layer shows that molten rocks have nothing to do with tectonic plate movements, which cause earthquakes. Scientists have managed to uncover a previously ...

Sabin Zahirovic receives funding from The University of Sydney, the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Basin Geodynamics and Evolution of Sedimentary Systems (Basin ...