One of the world's most important plate boundaries is older than previously thought

A chain of remote islands and underwater volcanoes between Alaska and Kamchatka has revealed a much older chapter in Earth's ...
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The Pacific Ring of Fire generates roughly 90% of the world’s earthquakes along a 40,000-kilometer horseshoe of colliding plate boundaries

Roughly 90 percent of the planet’s earthquakes strike along a single geologic feature: a 40,000-kilometer arc of colliding tectonic plates that frames the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Ring of Fire, ...
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Plate tectonics may be why Earth has life — and the key to finding life elsewhere in the universe

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks ...