Tectonic tips A new study of tectonic plate boundaries may help scientists understand how earthquakes happen. The work by researchers including Dr Giampiero Iaffaldano from the Australian National ...

A car crash-like collision between tectonic plates offshore of Colombia helps explain the region's unusual geology, a new study finds. Colombia sits at the complex junction of three small tectonic ...

Misfit plates in the Pacific led scientists to the discovery of a microplate between the Galapagos Islands and the South American coast. A microplate discovered off the west coast of Ecuador adds ...

Remember back in fourth grade when your mind was blown that the continents and oceans are all actually moving, very slowly, and that they used to be in different forms? The theory of plate tectonics ...

Washington, DC-- New work from an international team of researchers including Carnegie's Lara Wagner improves our understanding of the geological activity that is thought to have formed the Rocky ...