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

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

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

Earth’s surface is a dynamic, ever-changing landscape. Massive crustal plates shift, creating mountains, earthquakes, and ...

But when did Earth's surface splinter into tectonic plates? And when did those plates start moving? It's an important question because plate tectonics seems to fuel the evolution and complexity of ...

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

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

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

The reporter blames the laws of nature, plate tectonics to be precise. The Earth's crust is like a puzzle, constructed out of many pieces: There are a few gigantic oceanic plates and many smaller ...