Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

Using satellite maps, a team of Australian and U.S. researchers has found a small tectonic plate or microplate in the Indian Ocean and used that discovery to settle a long-running debate on the tim… ...

The team also reports the exact location of a now-extinct seafloor spreading ridge, a zone where two tectonic plates began pulling apart 180 million years ago to form the deep basin that became ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ... Abyssal hills — parallel ridges that are just hundreds of feet tall — are formed by the movements of tectonic plates.

The maps, which can be accessed through a new interactive website, reveal the lost eighth continent’s tectonic profile, along with the shape and depth of the ocean floor surrounding it.

Researchers have built a detailed map of the ocean ... altimetry with resolution so good it revealed the gravitational signatures of long-extinct ridges and sediment-covered tectonic plates. ...

Our plate tectonic reconstructions back to the Pangea supercontinent at 250 million years ago are fairly accurate by just undoing seafloor spreading, but the restoration of older supercontinents ...

The map shows the continents as they are today by default, but when you click on a different geological era they rearrange themselves, showing how dramatically tectonic plates have shift over ...

A California paleontologist has created an interactive map that allows people to see how far their hometowns have moved ... Scotese’s models describe plate tectonic development since 750 ...

The maps show how volcanism and tectonic motion have shaped the submerged landmass over millions of years. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Called Pontus, the 'mega-plate' was once 15 million square miles, about a quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean, report experts at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ... Abyssal hills — parallel ridges that are just hundreds of feet tall — are formed by the movements of tectonic plates.