Our work allows us to update maps of tectonic plates and the formation of continents ... The other large change is in central Asia. The new model now includes all the deformation zones north ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet ... It starts with the map of the world familiar to everyone.

previously unknown tectonic plate. It was nearly four times larger than contemporary Europe. They connected fragments thrown out by the oceans onto continental plates in the Asia and Pacific ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet ... It starts with the map of the world familiar to everyone.

It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates. The plates fit together like ... in the Himalayas in Asia.

Most geologic activity stems from the interplay where the plates meet or divide. The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries ... India and Asia crashed about 55 million ...

In the heart of Asia, deep underground, two huge tectonic plates are crashing into each other — a violent but slow-motion bout of geological bumper cars that over time has sculpted the soaring ...

The folded rocks sit at the intersection of Asia and Europe ... the initial collision between the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates. The timing of this collision is hotly debated, with ...

Scientists have identified a long-lost tectonic plate in the west Pacific Ocean. Called Pontus, the 'mega-plate' was once 15 million square miles, about a quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean ...