A BRIEF summary of the salient features of the stratigraphy of the Commonwealth is essential for understanding its tectonic structure. Pre-Cambrian rocks are developed in Western, Central, and ...

A tectonic plate is a massive slab of Earth’s outer shell, known as the lithosphere. These plates float on the asthenosphere, a softer, more flexible upper mantle layer. Earth’s lithosphere is ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

Learn how the layers of the Earth are structured, and the theory of plate tectonics in this guide for KS3 geography students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

Learn how to evaluate the various hard and soft engineering methods used to manage our coasts, with a case study on Newcastle, County Down.

Because they share so much in common, studying Venus' crust could give clues about what Earth's surface looked like billions of years ago.

Europe and North America, once considered fully separate continents, may still be part of the same tectonic structure.

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

Significantly, that chronology decouples plate tectonics from the origin of life on Earth: evidence of the earliest single-celled organisms dates back more than 3.6 billion years.

The emergence of plate tectonics in the late 1960s led to a paradigm shift from fixism to mobilism of global tectonics, providing a unifying context for the previously disparate disciplines of ...