Deep beneath the Central African Plateau, something vast is stirring. In Zambia's remote Kafue Rift, hot springs are ...

Scientists say they have evidence of a new continental rift forming in southern Africa that could eventually develop into a ...

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If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half ...

The magnitude-6.0 temblor that shook the Hawaiian islands Friday night caused power outages, major damage to homes and rockslides that temporarily blocked roadways in South Kona, where its epicenter ...

Researchers used small zircon crystals to unlock information about magmas and plate tectonic activity in early Earth. The research provides chemical evidence that plate tectonics was most likely ...

A new study introduces a novel way for tectonic plates — massive sheets of rock that jostle for position in the Earth’s crust and upper mantle — to bend and sink. It’s a bit of planetary Pilates that ...

Plate tectonics, the idea that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that move apart and come back together, has been used to explain the locations of volcanoes and earthquakes since the 1960s ...

The biggest jigsaw puzzle in the solar system has a split personality: The number and sizes of Earth's tectonic plates can flip, according to a new study. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Plate tectonics is the widely accepted theory that the Earth's crust is divided into several sections that float around on the mantle — the mostly solid layer between the core and the crust. But how ...