How we made our map In our day-to-day work we use the shapes of continents and the geology they carry to reconstruct how real tectonic plate "puzzle pieces" moved around on Earth over time.

We built the tectonic maps using free community software, called GPlates, that we developed for real-world tectonic modelling in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney.

Tectonic map of the Philippine Sea Plate, highlighting the different microplates that formed as a result of oceanic spreading at different spreading centers. Present-day plate boundaries are red.

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, with life first appearing around three billion years ago.

How We Made Our Map In our day-to-day work, we use the shapes of continents and the geology they carry to reconstruct how real tectonic plate “puzzle pieces” moved around on Earth over time.

The paleo-tectonic maps of retired geologist Ronald Blakey are mesmerizing and impossible to forget once you've seen them. Catalogued on his website, Colorado Plateau Geosystems, these maps show ...

The July 30 earthquake occurred due to tensions along the subduction faultline between the Pacific and the Okhotsk tectonic plates. The area is part of the Ring of Fire, a zone of earthquakes and ...

N ew scientific models mapping the Earth ’s tectonic plates could help to sharpen our collective understanding of natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, scientists have said ...

The Philippine islands form part of the so called “ring of fire”, where many of Earth's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur. The country has more than 300 volcanoes, of which 24 are ...

How we made our map In our day-to-day work we use the shapes of continents and the geology they carry to reconstruct how real tectonic plate “puzzle pieces” moved around on Earth over time. In ...