Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Based on a series of models considering how the continents were assembled over time, a team of researchers at the University of Adelaide created an updated map of Earth's tectonic plates.

"Our work allows us to update maps of tectonic plates and the formation of continents that are found in classroom textbooks. These plate models which have been assembled from topographic models ...

It appears that the lithosphere, which is the rocks on the outside of the world, has a pretty significant role to play in why the tectonic plates are moving the way they are.” This is the insight from ...

Without her, the maps may never have come to be ... For more on the story of plate tectonics, visit Century of Science: Shaking up Earth. Looking for more excitement, she moved to New York ...

In all, 203,186 earthquakes are marked on the map, which is current through 2003. And it reveals the story of plate tectonics itself. To be sure, the brightest and densest regions of the map ...

Plate tectonics over the last 1.8 billion years of Earth history. Why map Earth's past? Among the planets in the solar system, Earth is unique for having plate tectonics. Its rocky surface is ...

The movement of these tectonic plates leads to earthquakes and volcanoes ... at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very ...

When the first European map of America was published in 1507 ... But how did we arrive at our modern theory of plate tectonics? Stay tuned for the next post in this series.

Tectonic plates – the huge, constantly moving slabs of rock that make up the outermost layer of the Earth, the crust – are central to all these studies. Along with our colleagues, we have published ...