Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to set off plate tectonics. By Lucas Joel Some 4.5 billion years ...

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"Plate tectonics unified all these descriptions ... which is believed to be the deepest point on Earth. These types of collisions can also lead to underwater volcanoes. As the name suggests ...

As such, he says, it’s too early to say that Theia triggered plate tectonics. “It’s provoking. This material down there is something special,” Montési says of the large low-shear velocity ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

Now a team of scientists proposes this giant impact did even more: The collision left behind mysterious blobs within Earth’s interior that may have helped kick off plate tectonics — the ...

However, it has also highlighted a long-standing geological vulnerability which raises the question; Why is Pakistan hit by ...

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Plate tectonics explains the movement and interaction ... allowing for individual ecosystems to form. Collisions of plates led to mountain range development, which influenced the weather patterns ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives ... the deepest point on Earth. These types of collisions can also lead to underwater volcanoes that eventually build up ...

At collision zones fold mountains will be formed. These are plate boundaries where two plates are either slipping past each other in opposite directions or at different rates in the same direction.