Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

A gravity gradient model of the central Indian Ocean shows the junction of the African tectonic plate (left), the Indo-Australian plate (right) and the Antarctic plate (bottom). Credit: Scripps ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet some of these giant structures vanished deep into the mantle, hidden from ...

In 2021, geologists animated a video that shows how Earth's tectonic plates moved over the last billion years. The plates move together and apart at the speed of fingernail growth, and the video ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A couple of weeks ago, I was writing up a ...