By extrapolating how quickly Earth has cooled in the past, Cheng modeled a nonlinear cooling into the future. The extrapolation placed the death of plate tectonics in the year 1,450,002,018.

The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to successfully shed light on ...

New Research Reveals When Plate Tectonics Might Stop . ... They constructed a model of how the mantle activities have changed in the past and tried to extrapolate what that tells us about the future.

According to a new tectonic plate motion model, in the next 200 million years, Eurasia and the Americas will collide to form a new supercontinent.

The current theory of continental drift provides a good model for understanding terrestrial processes through history. However, while plate tectonics is able to successfully shed light on ...

Plate tectonics are important for Earth’s carbon cycle and help to regulate the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. “This cycle helps to keep Earth’s climate stabilized in a nice ...

Plate tectonics is by no means done, and there are several suggested models as to how our future world will look like. Plate tectonics were only discovered relatively recently.

Due to the abundance of nitrogen and carbon dioxide present in Venus’ atmosphere, the team believes that Venus must have had plate tectonics about 4.5 billion to 3.5 billion years ago after the ...

What will the next Pangea look like? It's hard to tell. The human-observable effects of plate tectonics are minuscule — an annual displacement of around 4 centimeters, the width of a honeybee’s ...

The new global model revealed many previously unseen areas where wave speeds were higher than expected. These "positive wave speed anomalies" suggest the presence of colder or denser material.

A collision with a Mars-size planetary object called Theia 4.44 billion years ago, left, might not only have formed the moon but also given rise to plate tectonics.