All the plates around the South China Sea Basin underwent clockwise rotation, subduction and experienced an extrusion process from the early Cenozoic to the Late Miocene. The geological history can be ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor ... a fast-spreading ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet off the coast ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new modeling study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, R.

Plate tectonic ... the migration of seafloor rocks. More recently there has been a discovery that the Earth’s magnetic field reverses periodically and it is possible to see an identical pattern ...

This topic video looks at Plate Tectonic Theory, and how Alfred Wegener came up the idea of Continental Drift, which was largely discredited at the time, but proved later through observations linked ...

But what she uncovered beneath the ocean’s surface would change geology forever. “Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence ...

This advanced undergraduate textbook provides a thoroughly modern overview of plate tectonics and is the perfect resource for a capstone geology course. It presents plate tectonics as a multifaceted, ...

the descending slab might have dipped beneath the Nazca plate’s predecessor, Wang says, in a bout of ancient tectonic reshuffling. Regardless of how it got there, part of that seafloor is very ...