With clues left behind in rocks and fossils, geoscientists can reconstruct the past history of Earth's continents. Scientists disagree about when plate tectonics first fired up: Some geologists ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

"Plate tectonics was a revolution. I’m a geologist, so I would say that," Tony Watts told BBC News. "Looking back, the history of geology is very long. The Geological Society was founded in 1807 ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer layer is made up of plates, which have moved throughout Earth's history. The theory explains the how and why behind mountains, volcanoes ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer layer is made up of plates, which have moved throughout Earth's history. The theory explains the how and why behind mountains, volcanoes ...

For more animations from Scotese about tectonic plate motions — past and present — and Earth history, check out his YouTube page. Source: Christopher Scotese Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook ...

All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous ... "The only way we can reliably see a long-term history is on our own planet," said Jesse Reimink, a geoscientist ...

The plate tectonics theory established in the 20th ... not specific to any particular period in Earth's history. Furthermore, ...

When we think about plate tectonics, we normally picture erupting ... you see a slice right through the Earth’s geological history. An extraordinary collection of rocks are exposed here.

Research in structural geology and tectonics seeks to define how and why deformation ... mountain belts and oceans, and how the history of plate motions has shaped topics as diverse as seismicity, ...