Map of the Earth’s rigid plates with the major tectonic plates labelled. Narrow plate boundary zones are the thin black lines. Created using plate reconstruction software (www.gplates.org).

The first whole-Earth plate tectonic map of half a billion years of Earth’s history. EARTH is estimated to be around 4.5 billion years old, ... Major update in historic Aussie rocket launch.

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These tectonic plates, which in simple terms are large slabs of rock that divide Earth’s crust, only shift a few inches a year, so it’s impossible to ever notice the ongoing movement (except ...

A previously unknown layer of partially molten rock has been detected beneath Earth’s crust. The discovery could help scientists learn more about the motions of Earth’s tectonic plates.

But it is not on the juncture of two of the major tectonic plates that form the earth's crust, ... The epicenter is the ground-level point right above it on a map.

A previously unknown layer of partially molten rock has been detected beneath Earth’s crust. The discovery could help scientists learn more about the motions of Earth’s tectonic plates.