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 these ...

LIZ BONNIN: Hi, I’m Liz Bonnin and this next clip looks at plates and eggs. The plates are tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust and are constantly moving very, very slowly. Either rubbing ...

Plate tectonics describes the movement and interaction of tectonic plates on Earth's surface. This movement is driven by the very slow creeping motion of Earth's mantle, called convection, which carry ...

Today, the entire globe is broken up into tectonic plates that are shifting past each other, causing the continents to drift slowly but steadily. But this has not always been the case. The earliest ...

Journey across global tectonic hotspots to explore volcanic processes, landforms, and plate margins with vivid footage and expert explanations. Preview: Journey across global tectonic hotspots to ...

This study is led by Prof. Yong-Fei Zheng at University of Science and Technology of China. It focuses on the development of tectonic processes along convergent plate margins through inspection of ...

If you think about mountain ranges like the Andes or the Himalayas, you can come up with multiple factors that must affect their size and shape. There’s the collision of tectonic plates that squeezes ...

Geologists have reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. The team had predicted its existence over 10 years ago based on ...

While scientists have linked the movements of Earth's tectonic plates to earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, they have struggled to explain how they came to exist in the first place. Now, in ...