They learn where the Earth's tectonic plates and their boundaries are, what happens at the boundaries, and how scientists classify plate boundaries. This curriculum encourages students to observe ...

Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

This program explores the composition of our Earth, and delves deep into the tectonic plates, their history and the different ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

may be responsible for modern plate tectonics. In their study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the group used existing data on the blobs, known more technically as large ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...

Although basalt reservoirs have previously been discovered in the MTZ, their origins have remained ... it now has a new claim to fame in the world of plate tectonics." "It's wild to think that ...

Plate tectonics is relatively new, put forth in the last 30 years or so — its forerunner was the now-discarded continental drift theory. The theory states that Earth's outer shell is made up of ...