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 ...

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

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 ...

Liu. More information: Qian Chen et al, Global mantle perturbations following the onset of modern plate tectonics, Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adq7476 ...

Recent research has identified that significant changes in the Earth's mantle composition began about 300 million years ago, ...

The study was published in Science Advances on Oct. 16 ... more distant subduction events. Modern-style plate tectonics, marked by continental crust subduction and deep slab break-off, began ...