The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

A large scale landform found along a conservative plate boundary is a fault line. One of the most active fault lines in the world is the San Andreas fault line in California, USA.

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...

It has vast water oceans and abundant life. But Earth is also unique because it is the only planet with plate tectonics, which shaped its geology, climate and possibly influenced the evolution of ...

Both are twice the size of the moon. Those blobs, the theory goes, created plate tectonics – the geologic phenomenon that fuels earthquakes and volcanoes, which allow life to flourish.

To learn why, where, and how earthquakes happen, you need to familiarize your students with the interior of the Earth and a model called plate tectonics. The engine behind the earthquake machine ...

Frank Zwaan, a scientist in the Geodynamic Modeling section at GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences, present an answer to this question: using plate tectonic modeling, they found that mountain ...

Geysers or hot springs of some kind were predicted at the Rift based on the relatively new plate tectonic theory. Remote sensors showed temperature changes and the presence of large clam shells ...