Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and ...

Deep within the Earth’s mantle, rhythmic pulses of hot lava are emerging on the surface, offering a rare glimpse into the ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

I just returned home from an adventure in Ecuador, the highlight was two weeks on a boat exploring the Galápagos Islands. As an earth scientist, there’s always a geologic story wherever I visit, but ...

A study in Geology presents evidence that subduction can spread like a contagion, jumping from one oceanic plate to another — a hypothesis previously difficult to prove.

What is a hydrothermal vent? Hydrothermal vents are naturally forming structures found in the ocean. They usually occur on divergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates are moving apart. The vents ...

The plate is being pulled apart The study highlights a powerful geological force in action. The Pacific Plate, which makes up most of the Pacific Ocean floor, is slowly moving west.

More information: Christine Chesley et al, Evidence for crustal brines and deep fluid infiltration in an oceanic transform fault, Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adu3661 ...

The type of plate boundary is determined by the relative motion of the plates where they meet. There are three types: convergent, divergent, or transform.

This theory, known as the ‘East African Rift System-Indian Plate boundary hypothesis’, is based on several pieces of evidence—geological observations, geophysical data and computer models.

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a northern continent, Laurasia, and a southern continent, Gondwana about ...