The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...

Ariel’s medial grooves could provide important clues about the moon’s internal structure, particularly regarding the presence ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Drewitt, J. W. E., Walter, M. J., Zhang, H., McMahon, S. C., Edwards, D., Heinen, B. J., Lord, O. T., Anzellini, S., & Kleppe, A. K. (2019). The fate of carbonate in ...

At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.

Eventually, a new ocean basin forms ... and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic crust. The mid-ocean ridges mark the lines along which the Earth is turning itself inside out through ...

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.

It suggests that vast portions of the oceanic crust may harbor complex life forms ... ocean biodiversity and may lead to the discovery of new species adapted to extreme conditions.

Continental and oceanic plates all fit together to form the outer crust of the planet. Eight major plates are named on the diagram below. Heat from the core makes magma in the mantle rise towards ...