The findings of a new study on a plate tectonics model could help better understand the factors driving earthquakes, the formation of mountains and the rifting of continents, the researchers said.

Tectonic settings for emplacement of subduction-related magmas and associated mineral deposits / A.H.G. Mitchell -- Longitudinal variations in the metallogenic evolution of the Central Andes / A.H.

The study is based on a model of how the rock walls of a magma chamber respond to three different situations: when the tectonic plate it is located in is being stretched across Earth's surface ...

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 ...

Australian geologists have used plate tectonic modelling to determine what most likely caused an extreme ice-age climate in Earth’s history, more than 700 million years ago.

Why Diving Tectonic Plates Get Stuck 400 Miles beneath Earth's Surface The hitch, likely only a temporary one, could be linked to certain volcanic features ...