Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

Plate tectonics also exposes rocks that react ... Earth's history is a leap forward in the scientific grand challenge to map ...

Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the ... moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very, very, very slowly.