The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...

Now, 50 years after the event, he may finally have an answer: The bottom of the tectonic plate off Portugal's coast seems to be peeling away from its top. This action may be providing the ...

In 1912, for example, Alfred Wegener noticed the apparently strange ... By the 1960s, however, the theory of plate tectonics – the movement of the solid mantle and crust over the Earth's surface ...

It was a century ago this spring that a little-known German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener proposed that ... and the more recent science of plate tectonics are now the bedrock of modern ...

Scientists used this information to confirm the presence of a tear in the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate under central Oregon. Something was nagging at William Hawley, and it was more about what was ...

The explanation for Pangaea's formation ushered in the modern theory of plate tectonics, which posits ... More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient ...

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 ...